The Portable Hawthorne (Penguin Classics)

by NathanielHawthorne (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $6.87

  The Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter , excerpts from his three subsequently published romances - The House of Seven Gables , The Blithedale Romance , and The Marble Faun - as well as passages from his European journals and a sampling of his last, unfinished works. The editor's introduction and head notes trace the evolution of Hawthorne's writing over the course of his long career: from the tales, to their apotheosis in The Scarlet Letter , through his popular romances, to his private journals and frustrated attempts at another romance. Readers looking for a critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne whole - his artistic rise, triumph, and sad decline - can find it in this collection.