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| Much to the author’s surprise … he finds that his sketch of official life … has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. |
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| 1804–64, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Salem, Mass., one of the great masters of American fiction. His novels and tales are penetrating explorations of moral and spiritual conflicts.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  hô´thôrn´´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini’s Daughter
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. X, Part 1.
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- The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne’s classic tragedy of love and morals in Puritan New England. Though set in Puritan community centuries ago, the moral dilemmas of personal responsibility, and consuming emotions of guilt, anger, loyalty and revenge are timeless.
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- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 27069 to 27095
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT HAWTHORNE
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- “Hawthorne”
Chapter by John Erskine with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature.
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- “Nathaniel Hawthorne”
Chapter by Carl Van Doren from the American Novel.
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