Nathaniel asks. Suddenly, “The Invisible Hour” feels like a tale of the world’s most determined stalker — and misreader. “This sort of magic happened in books,” Hawthorne thinks ...

The inspiration for Hawthorne’s second novel, The House of the Seven Gables, stems from this family history. In the book, the fictional Pyncheon family lives in a mansion based on the real-life ...

His notes, which include his daily interactions with individuals, travels and encounters would later be published posthumously by his wife, Sophia, as part of "Passages from the American Note-Books of ...

but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel Hawthorne published the novel on March 16, 1850, it was a juicy bestseller about an adulterous woman forced to wear a scarlet A on her ...

It has been 80-odd years since Nathaniel Hawthorne died ... Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart.

such a book as The Scarlet Letter would doubtless never have existed. But the symbol gave the touch whereby Hawthorne's disconnected thoughts on the subject were united and crystallized in organic ...

selection of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s books and papers to ever go up for grabs. Lisman is a Vermont-based collector who used to be an executive on Wall Street, according to the Burlington Free Press.

Nearly two centuries after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s graduation from Bowdoin College in 1825, the author’s work remains very much in the spotlight and has provided inspiration for such contemporary ...

Today, the bookstore Twice-Told Tales even bears one of Hawthorne’s book titles and serves to remind us that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s matriculation at Bowdoin nearly 200 years ago is one of the ...

who last year published her findings in an article in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, a journal featuring essays, notes, queries, book reviews, and bibliographies on the writer’s life and works.

but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel Hawthorne published the novel on March 16, 1850, it was a juicy bestseller about an adulterous woman forced to wear a scarlet A on her ...