The Portable Hawthorne

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Author); Cowley, Malcolm (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780140150384
• ISBN10: 0140150382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-12-01
• Publisher: Viking Pr

Summary

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 Faunas well as passages from his European journals and a sampling of his last, unfinished works. The editors introduction and head notes trace the evolution of Hawthornes 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 wholehis artistic rise, triumph, and sad declinecan find it in this collection.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	1	(21)
Some Dates in Hawthorne's Life	22	(5)
I. TALES
The New England Legend
Editor's Note	27	(2)
An Old Woman's Tale	29	(11)
The Maypole of Merry Mount	40	(13)
Young Goodman Brown	53	(16)
The Gray Champion	69	(9)
Roger Malvin's Burial	78	(23)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	101	(23)
Feathertop	124	(25)
The Solitary Heart
Editor's Note	149	(2)
Wakefield	151	(11)
Egotism; or, the Bosom Serpent	162	(16)
Rappaccini's Daughter	178	(35)
The Artist of the Beautiful	213	(29)
The Celestial Railroad	242	(20)
Ethan Brand	262	(20)
Hawthorne's Preface to the Third Edition of Twice-Told Tales	282	(7)
II. ROMANCES
The Scarlet Letter
Editor's Note	289	(3)
Hawthorne's Preface to the Second Edition of The Scarlet Letter	292	(1)
The Custom-House	293	(44)
The Scarlet Letter	337	(210)
The Other Romances
Editor's Note	547	(3)
From The House of the Seven Gables
The Little Shop-Window	550	(12)
Hawthorne's Preface	562	(2)
From The Blithedale Romance
A Knot of Dreamers	564	(9)
From The Marble Faun
On the Edge of a Precipice	573	(16)
From The Dolliver Romance
The Elixir of Life	589	(20)
III. JOURNALS AND LETTERS
Plots and Projects
Editor's Note	609	(2)
The American Notebooks	611	(25)
Persons and Places
Editor's Note	636	(1)
The English Notebooks
The Liverpool Slums	637	(2)
A Murder on Shipboard	639	(1)
The English Dowager	640	(2)
Responding to a Toast	642	(1)
A Singular Dream	643	(1)
Consul for the Countryless	644	(1)
The Sword Between	644	(1)
Dinner at the Reform Club	645	(3)
Mrs. Oakum	648	(2)
Herman Melville	650	(1)
92nd Street, Philadelphia	651	(1)
Spiritualism	652	(3)
The French and Italian Notebooks
The Countess Margaret	655	(4)
Miss Frederika Bremer	659	(4)
An Evening at the Brownings	663	(6)
A Bundle of Letters
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, June 4, 1837	669	(3)
To Sophia Peabody, October 4, 1840	672	(3)
To Sophia Peabody, April 13, 1841	675	(4)
To Horatio Bridge, May 3, 1843	679	(2)
To Richard Henry Stoddard, March 16, 1853	681	(2)
To William D. Ticknor, January 19, 1855	683	(3)
To William D. Ticknor, November 9, 1855	686	(1)
To Horatio Bridge, January 15, 1857	687	(1)
To James T. Fields, February 11, 1860	688	(2)
To James T. Fields, July 18, 1863	690	(1)
To James T. Fields, February 25, 1864	691	(4)
A Short Bibliography	695