When Herman Melville read “The House of the Seven Gables” in April 1851, he wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne a letter in his ebullient prose. “With great enjoyment we spent almost an hour in each ...

These days, we tend to think about The Scarlet Letter in relation to high school students struggling with their English ...

The first of the unpublished letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, announced last week to appear in the Gavette, is presented below. It is addressed to Mr. Zachariah Burchmore, who was associated with ...

One of those urges in Hawthorne’s fiction was to illuminate the difficulties of life for the artist or writer in the U.S. of his day. It was a recurring theme in indelible novels like “The House of ...