Nathaniel Hawthorne in His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1980 - 684 pages Shows us America's first great writer and his contemporaries as living, breathing people. |
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Page 243
... talks and talks and talks and talks , " Hawthorne wrote , " and I listen and listen and listen , with a patience for which ( in spite of all my sins ) I firmly expect to be admitted to the mansions of the blessed . " It was only a ...
... talks and talks and talks and talks , " Hawthorne wrote , " and I listen and listen and listen , with a patience for which ( in spite of all my sins ) I firmly expect to be admitted to the mansions of the blessed . " It was only a ...
Page 372
... talk all about myself , and this is selfishness and egotism , " he noted . " Granted . But how help it ? I am ... talking . I will do all the writing and visiting and talking myself . " He had recently been reading Hawthorne's story ...
... talk all about myself , and this is selfishness and egotism , " he noted . " Granted . But how help it ? I am ... talking . I will do all the writing and visiting and talking myself . " He had recently been reading Hawthorne's story ...
Page 376
... talk turned to such literary figures as G. P. R. James and Herman Melville and her particular friend , John Greenleaf Whittier . His stint as full - time baby - sitter and companion for his son was not a period of unalloyed pleasure ...
... talk turned to such literary figures as G. P. R. James and Herman Melville and her particular friend , John Greenleaf Whittier . His stint as full - time baby - sitter and companion for his son was not a period of unalloyed pleasure ...
Contents
Mr Hawthorne Calls Again | 3 |
A Remarkably HardHeaded Race | 9 |
PART TWO 6 | 99 |
Copyright | |
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