Biographie remplie d'anecdotes qui éclaire l'oeuvre comme la figure de Nathaniel Hawthorne de même qu'elle fait comprendre les motivations de l'auteur, d'origine américaine, quant à son désir d'obtenir la nationalité britannique.

This book is the first-ever selected edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's letters--169 personal letters and eight letters written while Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American consul.

Readers looking for a critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne whole—his artistic rise, triumph, and sad decline—can find it in this collection.

The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne.

An indispensable source for an understanding of what Hawthorne read during more than twenty years.