Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parables, Fantasies, Fragments

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s haunting short parables, fantasies, and fragments gathered from his private notebooks for the first time.

After graduating from college in 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne returned home to Salem, Massachusetts, where he lived with his mother and sisters for most of the next two decades, honing his craft in his third-story bedroom. During that time, he kept a series of journals, now called the American Notebooks, that became a vital taproot for his stories and novels. They also...