Nathaniel Hawthorne

Grandfather's Chair (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

Or True Stories From New England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colonial history comes to life in this 1850 gathering of sketches for young people, unified by a chair passed down through the generations. Includes The Quakers and the Indians, The Salem Witches, Cotton Mather, The Stamp Act, The Boston Massacre, The Tea-Party and Lexington, The Tory's Farewell, and The War for Independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411441156
• Artikelnr.: 50389450

Autorenporträt

American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804, to May 19, 1864) wrote both novels and short stories. His works typically touch on history, religion, and morality. His family had a lengthy history in Salem, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1804. Hawthorne enrolled at Bowdoin College in 1821, was chosen for membership in Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and received his diploma in 1825. Fanshawe, his debut novel, was published in 1828; he later tried to suppress it because he believed it fell short of the caliber of his later works. In magazines, he produced a number of short stories, which he later compiled as Twice-Told Tales in 1837. He proposed to Sophia Peabody the next year. Before getting married to Peabody in 1842, he joined the transcendentalist community of Brook Farm and worked at the Boston Custom House. The pair first settled in Concord, Massachusetts' The Old Manse before relocating to Salem, the Berkshires, and finally The Wayside. Following the release of The Scarlet Letter in 1850, a number of other novels followed. Prior to their 1860 return to Concord, Hawthorne and his family traveled to Europe as part of a political appointment as a consul. He passed away on May 19, 1864.