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Informationen zum Autor American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804, to May 19, 1864) wrote both novels and short stories. His works typically touch on history, religion, and morality. His family had a lengthy history in Salem, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1804. Hawthorne enrolled at Bowdoin College in 1821, was chosen for membership in Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and received his diploma in 1825. Fanshawe, his debut novel, was published in 1828; he later tried to suppress it because he believed it fell short of the caliber of his later works. In magazines, he produced a number of short stories, which he later compiled as Twice-Told Tales in 1837. He proposed to Sophia Peabody the next year. Before getting married to Peabody in 1842, he joined the transcendentalist community of Brook Farm and worked at the Boston Custom House. The pair first settled in Concord, Massachusetts' The Old Manse before relocating to Salem, the Berkshires, and finally The Wayside. Following the release of The Scarlet Letter in 1850, a number of other novels followed. Prior to their 1860 return to Concord, Hawthorne and his family traveled to Europe as part of a political appointment as a consul. He passed away on May 19, 1864. Klappentext The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter , The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance . And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction The Hollow of the Three Hills Sir William Phips Mrs. Hutchinson The Wives of the Dead My Kinsman, Major Molineux Roger Malvin’s Burial Passages from a Relinquished Work Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe The Haunted Mind Alice Doane’s Appeal The Gray Champion Young Goodman Brown Wakefield The Notch of the White Mountains The Ambitious Guest The May-Pole of Merry Mount The Minister’s Black Veil - A PARABLE Sunday at Home The Man of Adamant - AN APOLOGUE Endicott and the Red Cross Night Sketches Edward Randolph’s Portrait - FROM LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE-HOUSE The Hall of Fantasy The Birth-mark Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent - FROM THE UNPUBLISHED “ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART” The Christmas Banquet - FROM THE UNPUBLISHED “ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART” The Celestial Rail-road Earth’s Holocaust The Artist of the Beautiful Rappaccini’s Daughter - FROM THE WRITINGS OF AUBÉPINE Ethan Brand - A CHAPTER FROM AN ABORTIVE ROMANCE Suggestions for Further Reading HAWTHORNE: SELECTED TALES AND SKETCHES Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where, after his graduation from Bowdoin College in Maine, he wrote the bulk of his masterful tales of American colonial history, many of which were collected in his Twice-told Tales (1837). In 1839 and 1840 Hawthorne worked in the Boston Customs House, then spent most of 1841 at the experimental community of Brook Farm. After his marriage to Sophia Peabody, he settled in the “Old Manse” in Concord; there, betwe...
