{"product_id":"2940014739443","title":"COMPLETE MAJOR WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE [Authoritative and Unabridged NOOK Edition] All the Major Works of Nathaniel HAWTHORNE Including The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, Rappaccini's Daughter, Young Goodman Brown [Nathaniel Hawthorne]","description":"COMPLETE MAJOR WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE \u003cbr\u003e[Authoritative and Unabridged NOOK Edition] \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the Major Works of Nathaniel HAWTHORNE Including The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, Rappaccini's Daughter, Young Goodman Brown \u003cbr\u003e[Nathaniel Hawthorne]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOVERVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of Hawthorne’s genius is in some sense a summary of all New England history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom amid a simple, practical, energetic community, remarkable for its activity in affairs of state and religion, but by no means given to dreaming, this fair flower of American genius rose up unexpectedly enough, breaking the cold New England sod for the emission of a light and fragrance as pure and pensive as that of the arbutus in our woods, in spring. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe flower, however, sprang from seed that rooted in the old colonial life of the sternly imaginative pilgrims and Puritans. Thrusting itself up into view through the drift of a later day, it must not be confounded with other growths nourished only by that more recent deposit; though the surface-drift had of course its own weighty influence in the nourishment of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFANSHAWE\u003cbr\u003eTHE SCARLET LETTER\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES\u003cbr\u003eTHE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE\u003cbr\u003eTHE MARBLE FAUN\u003cbr\u003eDOCTOR GRIMSHAWE'S SECRET : A ROMANCE\u003cbr\u003eMOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE, AND OTHER STORIES\u003cbr\u003eTHE SNOW IMAGE AND OTHER STORIES\u003cbr\u003eTALES\u003cbr\u003eALICE DOANE’S APPEAL\u003cbr\u003eTHE ANCESTRAL FOOTSTEP\u003cbr\u003eTHE DOLLIVER ROMANCE\u003cbr\u003eSEPTIMIUS FELTON\u003cbr\u003eTANGLEWOOD TALES\u003cbr\u003eLIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE\u003cbr\u003eCHIEFLY ABOUT WAR MATTERS\u003cbr\u003eTWICE TOLD TALES\u003cbr\u003eTHE GRAY CHAMPION.\u003cbr\u003eSUNDAY AT HOME.\u003cbr\u003eTHE WEDDING-KNELL.\u003cbr\u003eTHE MINISTER’S BLACK VEIL: A PARABLE.1\u003cbr\u003eTHE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT.\u003cbr\u003eTHE GENTLE BOY.\u003cbr\u003eMR. HIGGINBOTHAM’S CATASTROPHE.\u003cbr\u003eLITTLE ANNIE’S RAMBLE.\u003cbr\u003eWAKEFIELD.\u003cbr\u003eA RILL FROM THE TOWN-PUMP.\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREAT CARBUNCLE.\u003cbr\u003eTHE PROPHETIC PICTURES.5\u003cbr\u003eDAVID SWAN.\u003cbr\u003eSIGHTS FROM A STEEPLE.\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS.\u003cbr\u003eTHE TOLL-GATHERER’S DAY.\u003cbr\u003eTHE VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN.\u003cbr\u003eFANCY’S SHOW-BOX.\u003cbr\u003eDR. HEIDEGGER’S EXPERIMENT.\u003cbr\u003eLEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE-HOUSE.\u003cbr\u003e I – HOWE’S MASQUERADE.\u003cbr\u003e II. – EDWARD RANDOLPH’S PORTRAIT.\u003cbr\u003e III. – LADY ELEANORE’S MANTLE.\u003cbr\u003eIV. – OLD ESTHER DUDLEY.\u003cbr\u003eTHE HAUNTED MIND.\u003cbr\u003eTHE VILLAGE UNCLE.\u003cbr\u003eTHE AMBITIOUS GUEST.\u003cbr\u003eTHE SISTER-YEARS.\u003cbr\u003eSNOWFLAKES.\u003cbr\u003eTHE SEVEN VAGABONDS.\u003cbr\u003eTHE WHITE OLD MAID.\u003cbr\u003ePETER GOLDTHWAITE’S TREASURE.\u003cbr\u003eCHIPPINGS WITH A CHISEL.\u003cbr\u003eTHE SHAKER BRIDAL.\u003cbr\u003eNIGHT-SKETCHES,\u003cbr\u003eENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS.\u003cbr\u003eTHE LILY’S QUEST.\u003cbr\u003eFOOTPRINTS ON THE SEASHORE.\u003cbr\u003eEDWARD FANE’S ROSEBUD.\u003cbr\u003eTHE THREEFOLD DESTINY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT FROM THE SCARLET LETTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.\u003cbr\u003e  The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson’s lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King’s Chapel. Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.\"","brand":"NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Complete Major Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069491757296,"sku":"2940014739443","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014739443_p0.jpg?v=1763614611","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014739443","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}