Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 132 views

    Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Uploaded by

    api-3741779
    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He had a shy and reserved personality and led a solitary life. His experiences influenced his writing, including his most famous work, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850. Hawthorne also wrote several short story collections including Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. He contributed stories to many magazines and died in 1864 while working on his final unfinished work, Dolliver Romance.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Uploaded by

    api-3741779
    132 views2 pages
    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He had a shy and reserved personality and led a solitary life. His experiences influenced his writing, including his most famous work, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850. Hawthorne also wrote several short story collections including Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. He contributed stories to many magazines and died in 1864 while working on his final unfinished work, Dolliver Romance.

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He had a shy and reserved personality and led a solitary life. His experiences influenced his writing, including his most famous work, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850. Hawthorne also wrote several short story collections including Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. He contributed stories to many magazines and died in 1864 while working on his final unfinished work, Dolliver Romance.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    132 views2 pages

    Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Uploaded by

    api-3741779
    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He had a shy and reserved personality and led a solitary life. His experiences influenced his writing, including his most famous work, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850. Hawthorne also wrote several short story collections including Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. He contributed stories to many magazines and died in 1864 while working on his final unfinished work, Dolliver Romance.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    of 2

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

    Biographical note

    Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty–six, and a tale writer of some twenty–four years’
    standing, when “The Scarlet Letter” appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804, son of
    a sea–captain. He led there a shy and rather sombre life; of few artistic encouragements, yet not
    wholly uncongenial, his moody, intensely meditative temperament being considered. Its colours and
    shadows are marvelously reflected in his “Twice–Told Tales” and other short stories, the product of his
    first literary period. Even his college days at Bowdoin did not quite break through his acquired and
    inherited reserve; but beneath it all, his faculty of divining men and women was exercised with almost
    uncanny prescience and subtlety. “The Scarlet Letter,” which explains as much of this unique
    imaginative art, as is to be gathered from reading his highest single achievement, yet needs to be
    ranged with his other writings, early and late, to have its last effect. In the year that saw it published, he
    began “The House of the Seven Gables,” a later romance or prose–tragedy of the Puritan–American
    community as he had himself known it—defrauded of art and the joy of life, “starving for symbols” as
    Emerson has it. Nathaniel Hawthorne died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, on May 18th, 1864.

    Hawthorne's contributions to magazines were numerous, and most of his tales appeared first in
    periodicals, chiefly in “The Token,” 1831– 1838, “ New England Magazine,” 1834,1835; “
    Knickerbocker,” 1837– 1839; “ Democratic Review,” 1838– 1846; “ Atlantic Monthly,” 1860– 1872
    (scenes from the Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, and passages from Hawthorne’ s Note– Books).

    Works:

    • Fanshawe [published anonymously, 1826]

    • Twice–Told Tales:

    o [1st Series, 1837]


    o [2nd Series, 1842]

    • Grandfather’s Chair, a history for youth [1845]

    • Famous Old People (Grandfather’s Chair) [1841]

    • Liberty Tree: with the last words of Grandfather’s Chair [1842]

    • Biographical Stories for Children [1842]

    • Mosses from an Old Manse [1846]

    • The Scarlet Letter [1850]

    • The House of the Seven Gables [1851]

    • True Stories from History and Biography (the whole History of Grandfather’s Chair) [1851]

    • A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys [1851]

    • The Snow Image and other Tales [1851]

    • The Blithedale Romance [1852]

    • Life of Franklin Pierce [1852]

    • Tanglewood Tales [2nd Series of the Wonder Book, 1853]

    • A Rill from the Town–Pump, with remarks by Telba [1857]

    • The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni [published in England under the title of
    “Transformation”, 1860] Our Old Home [1863]

    • Dolliver Romance [1st Part in “Atlantic Monthly”, 1864; in 3 Parts, 1876]

    • Pansie, a fragment [Hawthorne’s last literary effort, 1864]

    • American Note–Books [1868]

    • English Note Books, edited by Sophia Hawthorne [1870]

    • French and Italian Note Books [1871]

    • Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life [from the “Atlantic Monthly”, 1872]

    • Tales of the White Hills, Legends of New England, Legends of the Province House [1877,
    contain tales which had already been printed in book form in “Twice–Told Tales” and the
    “Mosses”] Doctor Grimshawe’ s Secret, with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne [1882]

    • Sketches and Studies [1883]

    You might also like