The Portable Hawthorne
Edition: Revised and Expanded Edition (a)
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 698
ISBN-13: 9780517478578
Copyright date: 1976
Description: In his inspired introduction to this collection, Malcolm Cowley says of Nathaniel Hawthorne, "He was one of the loneliest authors who ever wrote, even in this century of lost souls, while at the same time his style was that of a social man eager to make himself clear and intensely conscious of his audience. "

A master storyteller and novelist, this darkling New England genius drew on the Puritan past for much of his material, and out of it fashioned such landmarks of American fiction as The Scarlet Let- ter, complete in this volume (along with Hawthorne's introduction, "The Custom House"), and The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, and The Dolliver Romance, here represented by self-contained selections.

There are also thirteen of Hawthorne's best tales, passages from his American notebooks, unexpur- gated passages from the European notebooks, and a dozen of his most characteristic letters. For this edition Malcolm Cowley added a postscript to the introduction and a new bibliography.
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Table of contents: title: EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; title: SOME DATES IN HAWTHORNE'S LIFE; title: 1. TALES; title: THE NEW ENGLAND LEGEND; title: Editor's Note; title: An Old Woman's Tale; title: The Maypole of Merry Mount; title: Young Goodman Brown; title: The Gray Champion; title: Roger Malvin's Burial; title: My Kinsman, Major Molineux; title: Feathertop; title: THE SOLITARY HEART; title: Editor's Note; title: Wakefield; title: Egotism; or, the Bosom Serpent; title: Rappaccini's Daughter; title: The Artist of the Beautiful; title: The Celestial Railroad; title: Ethan Brand; title: Hawthorne's Preface to the Third Edition; title: of Twice-Told Tales; title: 11. ROMANCES; title: THE SCARLET LEITER; title: Editor's Note; title: Hawthorne's Preface to the Second Edition; title: of The Scarlet Letter; title: The Custom-House; title: The Scarlet Letter; title: THE OTHER ROMANCES; title: Editor's Note; title: From The House of the Seven Gables; title: The Little Shop-Window; title: Hawthorne's Preface; title: From The Blithedale Romance; title: A Knot of Dreamers; title: From The Marble Faun; title: On the Edge of a Precipice; title: From The Dolliver Romance; title: The Elixir of Life; title: 111. JOURNALS AND LETTERS; title: PLOTS AND PROJECTS; title: Editor's Note; title: The American Notebooks; title: PERSONS AND PLACES; title: Editor's Note; title: The English Notebooks; title: The Liverpool Slums; title: A Murder on Shipboard; title: The English Dowager; title: Responding to a Toast; title: A Singular Dream; title: Consul for the Countryless; title: The Sword Between; title: Dinner at the Reform Club; title: Mrs. Oakum; title: Herman Melville; title: 92nd Street, Philadelphia; title: Spiritualism; title: The French and Italian Notebooks; title: The Countess Margaret; title: Miss Frederika Bremer; title: An Evening at the Brownings'; title: A BUNDLE OF LETTERS; title: To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, June 4, 1837; title: To Sophia Peabody, October 4, 1840; title: To Sophia Peabody, April 13, 1841; title: To Horatio Bridge, May 3, 1843; title: To Richard Henry Stoddard, March 16, 1853; title: To William D. Ticknor, January 19, 1855; title: To William D. Ticknor, November 9, 1855; title: To Horatio Bridge, January 15, 1857; title: To James T. Fields, February 11, 1860; title: To James T. Fields, July 18, 1863; title: To James T. Fields, February 25, 1864; title: A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY