The Dolliver Romance

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Book Overview

The Dolliver Romance is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published posthumously in 1876. The story is set in the fictional town of ""Dolliver's Neck"" and follows the lives of a wealthy family, the Dollivers, who are descended from a group of English settlers. The patriarch of the family, Major John Dolliver, is a man of great influence and power in the community. However, his family is plagued by a curse that has haunted them for generations.The story begins with the arrival of a young man named Hollingsworth, who is searching for a new life and purpose. He becomes involved with the Dolliver family and falls in love with one of the daughters, Priscilla. However, their relationship is complicated by the curse that has plagued the family for generations.As the story progresses, Hawthorne explores themes of love, power, and the supernatural. The novel is known for its complex characters and intricate plot, as well as its exploration of the darker aspects of human nature. The Dolliver Romance is considered one of Hawthorne's most ambitious works, and is often cited as an example of his mastery of the psychological novel.Little Pansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood. The Doctor's only child, poor Bessie's offspring, had died the better part of a hundred years before, and his grandchildren, a numerous and dimly remembered brood, had vanished along his weary track in their youth, maturity, or incipient age, till, hardly knowing, how it had all happened, he found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerveless grasp. So mistily did his dead progeny come and go in the patriarch's decayed recollection, that this solitary child represented for him the successive babyhoods of the many that had gone before.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419160044
• ISBN13: 9781419160042
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.5" x 9.1"