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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was four years old when his father, a sea captain, died in 1808. He grew up under the roof of his maternal uncles in Salem, Massachusetts, and attended Bowdoin College in Maine, where he discovered his vocation as a writer. The publication of his short story “Young Goodman Brown” in 1835 was followed by the collections Twice-Told Tales (1837) and Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). The latter took its name from the house in Concord, Massachusetts, where he and his wife, Sophia, lived after their marriage in 1842. Unable to earn a living from his writing, he sought employment as a government bureaucrat, first in the Salem Custom House and later as United States consul in Liverpool, England. Despite his chronic financial insecurity, he continued to produce such notable works as The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and The Marble Faun (1860). He died in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1864.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was four years old when his father, a sea captain, died in 1808. He grew up under the roof of his maternal uncles in Salem, Massachusetts, and attended Bowdoin College in Maine, where he discovered his vocation as a writer. The publication of his short story “Young Goodman Brown” in 1835 was followed by the collections Twice-Told Tales (1837) and Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). The latter took its name from the house in Concord, Massachusetts, where he and his wife, Sophia, lived after their marriage in 1842. Unable to earn a living from his writing, he sought employment as a government bureaucrat, first in the Salem Custom House and later as United States consul in Liverpool, England. Despite his chronic financial insecurity, he continued to produce such notable works as The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and The Marble Faun (1860). He died in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1864.

    Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales: A Norton Critical Edition

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, James McIntosh

      Second Edition, Paperback, 2012

      Nathaniel Hawthorne’s best-loved tales are now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition.

    • The Blithedale Romance

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arlin Turner

      Paperback, 1998

      Henry James called The Blithedale Romance "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's novels and his character Zenobia “the nearest approach that Hawthorne . . . made to the...

    • The House of the Seven Gables

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

      First Edition, Paperback, 2005

      This all-new edition of Hawthorne’s celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press’s Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

    • The Blithedale Romance: A Norton Critical Edition

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard H. Millington

      First Edition, Paperback, 2011

      This new Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne’s innovative 1852 novel helps readers navigate and appreciate its elusive plot, powerful characters, and maddening narrator.

    • The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. Person

      Second Edition, Paperback, 2017

      This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne's most widely read novel—as well as to the five...

    • The House of the Seven Gables: A Norton Critical Edition

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

      Second Edition, Paperback, 2020

      “The notes and the annotations in this and other Norton volumes most influence my decision in choosing this text. I thought the volume excellent. My students commented that it was very helpful.” —...

    • The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. Person

      Second Edition, E Book, 2021

      This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne's most widely read novel—as well as to the five...

    • The Scarlet Letter

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Justine S. Murison

      First Edition, Mixed Media, 2023

    • The Scarlet Letter

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Justine S. Murison

      First Edition, E Book, 2023

    • The Scarlet Letter

      Nathaniel Hawthorne, Justine S. Murison

      First Edition, Paperback, 2023

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