Nathaniel Hawthorne

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It is a little remarkable, that-though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends-an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. The first time...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. IN writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has...

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the...

Here are the best of Hawthorne's short stories. There are twenty-four of them -- not only the most familiar, but also many that are virtually unknown to the average reader. The selection was made by Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College, a recognized authority on Hawthorne and a distinguished literary critic as well. His fine introduction...

Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthornes second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, and Rappaccinis Daughter. Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty-six, and a tale writer of some twenty-four years' standing, when "e;The Scarlet Letter"e; appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass. , on July 4th, 1804, son of a sea-captain. He led there a shy and...