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Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches (Library of America College Editions)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1883011337
- ISBN 13
- 9781883011338
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. He lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride in a prosperous past. His boyhood was, in most respects, pleasant and normal. In 1825 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and he returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his Twice-Told Tales (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. The Scarlet Letter (1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by The House of the Seven Gables (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.
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- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Bib2020LJ00191
- Title
- Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches (Library of America College Editions)
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1883011337
- ISBN 13
- 9781883011338
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1996-05-01
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