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 61
... tion , even his intended bride , Elizabeth . He lives " shrouded in dis- mal suspicions ; kind and loving , though unloved , and dimly feared ; a man apart from men , shunned in their health and joy . " The veil , however , has one ...
... tion , even his intended bride , Elizabeth . He lives " shrouded in dis- mal suspicions ; kind and loving , though unloved , and dimly feared ; a man apart from men , shunned in their health and joy . " The veil , however , has one ...
Page 149
... tion about not writing to anyone . In a letter to David Roberts , his old card - playing associate of Herbert Street days and still a practic- ing lawyer in Salem , Hawthorne explained that he had not intended to write , " but as it is ...
... tion about not writing to anyone . In a letter to David Roberts , his old card - playing associate of Herbert Street days and still a practic- ing lawyer in Salem , Hawthorne explained that he had not intended to write , " but as it is ...
Page 157
... tion of a quite different book , a special edition of one of his earli- est and most popular tales , " The Gentle Boy . " The edition had been sponsored by Miss Burley , the Salem hostess . It was to carry , as a frontispiece ...
... tion of a quite different book , a special edition of one of his earli- est and most popular tales , " The Gentle Boy . " The edition had been sponsored by Miss Burley , the Salem hostess . It was to carry , as a frontispiece ...
Contents
Mr Hawthorne Calls Again | 3 |
A Remarkably HardHeaded Race | 9 |
PART TWO 6 | 99 |
Copyright | |
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