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.

... Hawthorne's own imagination and designed around some authentic historical source . Hawthorne's romance between Hester and Dimmesdale , as purported by the purveyor , is an allegory of the Creator's passionate romance with the elements ...

... Hawthorne's universe impinge, something leaks through; there is a stain. A sensation of blasphemous overlapping, of some vast substance chemically betraying itself, is central to the Gothic tradition of which Hawthorne's tales are ...

... Hawthorne's work was his life ; and as his work , Hawthorne's life was round , for it came full circle and by a most uncanny , symmetrical route . " My journey , as thou callest it , forth and back again , must needs be done ' twixt now ...