The Portable Hawthorne

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Book Overview

A critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne's career as a whole--his artistic rise, triumph, and final works

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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143039288
• ISBN13: 9780143039280
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher