Nathaniel Hawthorne

Works

The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini’s Daughter
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. X, Part 1. The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne’s classic tragedy of love and morals in Puritan New England. Though set in Puritan community centuries ago, the moral dilemmas of personal responsibility, and consuming emotions of guilt, anger, loyalty and revenge are timeless.

Writings About Hawthorne, Nathaniel

“Hawthorne”
Chapter by John Erskine with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature.

“Nathaniel Hawthorne”
Chapter by Carl Van Doren from the American Novel.