The Portable Hawthorne

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• ISBN13: 9780143039280
• ISBN10: 0143039288
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101010426
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780140150384
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

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 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.

Author Biography

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-û1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and is best known today for his enigmatic tales and the novel The Scarlet Letter.
William C. Spengemann is the Hale Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He edited the Penguin Classics edition of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.

Table of Contents

The tales (1830-1852)	p. 1
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	p. 9
Roger Malvin's burial	p. 30
Young Goodman Brown	p. 51
The minister's black veil	p. 66
The man of Adamant	p. 80
The birth-mark	p. 88
Rappaccini's daughter	p. 106
Preface : from "The old manse"	p. 139
Preface : to Twice-told tables	p. 142
Preface : to The snow image	p. 147
The scarlet letter (1850)	p. 151
The published romances (1851-1860)	p. 357
From The house of the seven gables	p. 365
From The blithedale romance	p. 370
From The marble faun	p. 375
The European journals (1853-1860)	p. 381
The last years (1861-1864)	p. 417
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