The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne wears a letter the town requires, while the father of her child stays unnamed. Hawthorne’s novel is about punishment as a public art.
Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter sets a public punishment in a Puritan town and then studies the private lives around it. Guilt, in this novel, is as much a community habit as a feeling.
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables stays with a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft.
Mosses from an old manse
Mosses from an old manse
Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published.
Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children.
The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance is the third major "romance", as he called the form. Its setting is an utopian socialist farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived.
Fanshawe
Fanshawe
Fanshawe was his first published work, which he published anonymously.
The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")
The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")
The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") was first published in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir,. The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") was later included in Volume Two of Twice-Told Tales, a gathering of short stories by Hawthorne published.
A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") was first published in Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, I (May ), 193-200, and later included as the final story in the compilation Mosses from an Old Manse.
The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") was first published in the edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich. The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") later appeared in Hawthorne's final gathering of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields.
The snow-image: a childish miracle
The snow-image: a childish miracle
"The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle" is a short story by the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, which gave its title to his collection The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published.
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales.