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Content:
Letters:
Browne's Folly (a letter for the Essex Institute)
Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody) - Volume I&II
Letter to the Editor of the Literary Review
Memoirs:
American Notebooks (Volume I & II)
English Notebooks (Volume I & II)
French and Italian Notebooks (Volume I & II)
Biographies and Reminiscences of Hawthorne:
The Life and Genius of Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
Memories of Hawthorne...
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English
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A key figure in the development of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) is best remembered as the author of The Scarlet Letter. The New England native also wrote scores of short stories, many of them reflecting his Puritan heritage in their preoccupation with evil, guilt, and sin. Rich in allegorical detail and symbolic imagery, Hawthorne's darkly romantic tales are characterized by the struggle for freedom from social conventions....