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Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
May 15, 2024 · Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) is one of the greatest fiction writers of 19th-century America. A novelist and short-story writer, he was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. Hawthorne is best known for the novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).
Apr 2, 2014 · Author Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of Seven Gables,' and also wrote many short stories.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, (born July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S.—died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H.), U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Descended from Puritans, he was imbued with a deep moral earnestness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. His family descended from the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; among his forebears was John Hathorne (Hawthorne added the “w” to his name when he began to write), one of the judges at the 1692 Salem witch trials.
May 15, 2024 · Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter, House of Seven Gables, Blithedale Romance: The main character of The Scarlet Letter (1850) is Hester Prynne, a young married woman who has given birth to a child while living away from her husband in a village in Puritan New England.
Covers all of the major criticism and biographies of Hawthorne from 1828 to 2010 and tries to show how each is entangled with the other, thus undermining most polarized and dualistic interpretations of Hawthorne’s work and personality.
