Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Three Golden Apples
by Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne's retelling of the exploits of Hercules. In search of three golden apples, Hercules encounters the Old Man of the Sea, a six-legged man creature and the mighty giant, Atlas. For all ages, not too hard for younger listeners, and not too simple for older ones. From A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls...
Fanshawe
by Nathaniel HawthorneFanshawe is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was his first published work, which he published anonymously in 1828. Dr. Melmoth, the President of fictional Harley College, takes into his care Ellen Langton, the daughter of his friend, Mr. Langton, who is at sea. Ellen is a young, beautiful girl and attracts the attentions o..
Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches
by Nathaniel HawthorneOur Old Home: A Series of English Sketches is a travel literature work by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderable disappointment to me had you withheld it; for I have long desired to connect your name with some book of mine, in commem..
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair
by Nathaniel HawthorneIN writing this ponderous tome, the author’s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thre..
The Wives of the Dead
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Wives of the Dead is an 1832 short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a much-beloved pioneer of early American literature. First published in the annual periodical The Token and later included in Hawthorne’s 1852 collection, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, “The Wives of the Dead” concerns two sisters-in-law who become widows after their ..
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
by Nathaniel HawthorneDoctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance is a fiction novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspri..
Passages from the American Notebooks
by Nathaniel HawthornePassages from the English Notebooks is a collection of travel writing by Nathaniel Hawthorne written in two volumes and this book contains both volumes in one edition. It seems justly due to Mr. Hawthorne that the occasion of any portion of his private journals being brought before the Public should be made known, since they were originally designe..
The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Prophetic Pictures is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In "The Prophetic Pictures," the evil soul that the master painter has seen in the happy young bridegroom finally makes its way through the picture and onto the face itself. In story after story the given element, the central and unifying element, is what moves and stirs within us, the..