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The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Life and Work of the Salem Novelist
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The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Life and Work of the Salem Novelist
About this book
A life of Hawthorne by a man who had known his family and worked from the papers - the Salem years, the custom house, Brook Farm and the consulate at Liverpool. Stearns is honest about the silences in his subject. This edition carries 58 plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by Eastman Johnson, George Inness, Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt, with a preface, three appendices and an index.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Inscribed to Emilia Maciel Stearns
- Preface
- Chapter I. — Salem and the Hathornes: 1630-1800
- Chapter II. — Boyhood of Hawthorne: 1804-1821
- Chapter III. — Bowdoin College: 1821-1825.
- Chapter IV. — Little Misery: 1825-1835
- Chapter V. — Eos and Eros: 1835-1839
- Chapter VI. — Pegasus at the Cart: 1839-1841
- Chapter VII. — Hawthorne as a Socialist: 1841-1842
- Chapter VIII. — Concord and the Old Manse: 1842-1845
- Chapter IX. — “Mosses from an Old Manse”: 1845
- Chapter X. — From Concord to Lenox: 1845-1849
- Chapter XI. — Pegasus Is Free: 1850-1852
- Chapter XII. — The Liverpool Consulate: 1852-1854
- Chapter XIII. — Hawthorne in England: 1854-1858
- Chapter XIV. — Italy
- Chapter XV. — Hawthorne as Art Critic: 1858
- Chapter XVI. — “The Marble Faun”: 1859-1860
- Chapter XVII. — Homeward Bound: 1860-1862
- Chapter XVIII. — Immortality
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Index
- About the Author
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