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Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1841 (Peabody Essex Museum). Nathaniel Hathorne, as his name was originally spelled, was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts; his birthplace is preserved and open to the public. [3]
The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.
Pages in category "Novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Hawthorne was more inspired by the way "seven gables" sounded than what the house looked like. As he wrote in a letter, "The expression was new and struck me forcibly... I think I shall make something of it." [6] The idea inspired Hawthorne's novel The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne wrote of the house as if it were a living thing.
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.The first volume was published in the spring of 1837 and the second in 1842. [1] The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun , written on the eve of the American Civil War , is set in a fantastical Italy.
Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors for having a child out of wedlock. The character has been called "among the first and most important female protagonists in American literature". [1]