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Nathaniel Hawthorne, a biography / Arlin Turner.

Summary:

A biography of the 19th-century American author of "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," and other works.

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Record details

ISBN: 0195025474
ISBN: 9780195025477
Physical Description: xii, 457 pages : illustrations
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Hawthorne beginnings -- The Manning years -- Preparing for college -- Bowdoin College -- The chamber under the eaves -- Of puritans, quakers, and witches -- "The story-teller" -- Twice-told tales -- Duels: comic and tragic -- The Peabodys -- Port-admiral -- Mr. Ripley's utopia -- Eden revisited -- Calm summer of heart and mind -- The expulsion -- "Decapitation" -- The scarlet letter -- In the Berkshires -- The house of the seven gables --The blithedale romance -- "We are politicians now" -- Prime Minister -- Return to your old home -- "Pegasus in a yoke" -- England and the English -- Novelist as consul -- Art and artists in Italy -- The marble faun -- They wayside after seven years -- A divided nation and divided minds -- Romances in fragments -- "Nearer to the way-side inn."