description: Nathaniel Hawthorne, perhaps more than any other writer, summed up the New England Puritan tradition. His great-great-grandfather, Major Wielliam Hathorne, came from England to America on the ship that brought the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His great-grandfather was one of the judges in the witchcraft trials. both his sea captain father and his mother were lean-jawed Puritans. A leader in the development of the short story as a distinctive American genre, Hawthorne wrote masterpieces of romantic fiction with an emphasis on moral significance. In these famous tales, as in his novels, Hawthorne shows in an imaginative and allegorical fashion his concern with the results of the Puritanism that was at the roots of the culture of his time.
language: English
title: Twice-Told Tales and Other Short Stories
titlecomplete: Twice-Told Tales and Other Short Stories
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Pocket Books