The Portable Hawthorne

<b>The Portable Hawthorne</b> includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales all of The Scarlet Letter excerpts from his three subsequently published romances--<b>The House of Seven Gables</b> <b>The Blithedale Romance</b> and <b>The Marble Faun</b>--as well as passages from his European journals and a sampling of his last unfinished works. The editor's introduction and head notes trace the evolution of Hawthorne's writing over the course of his long career: from the tales to their apotheosis in <b>The Scarlet Letter</b> through his popular romances to his private journals and frustrated attempts at another romance. Readers looking for a critical vantage point from which to see Hawthorne whole--his artistic rise triumph and sad decline--can find it in this collection.<p> </p>