{"product_id":"9781555846886","title":"Hawthorne in Concord","description":"\u003cb\u003eA richly textured account of the writer’s three sojourns in New England “illuminates Hawthorne’s art and the intellectual ferment originating in that small, bucolic town” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother’s home in Salem.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 1853, Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned author of \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e. Eager to resume writing fiction at the scene of his earlier happiness, he assembled a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, who was running for president. When Pierce won the election, Hawthorne was appointed the lucrative post of consul in Liverpool.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Coming home from Europe in 1860, Hawthorne settled down in Concord once more. He tried to take up writing one last time, but deteriorating health found him withdrawing into private life. In \u003ci\u003eHawthorne in Concord\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed historian Philip McFarland paints a revealing portrait of this well-loved American author during three distinct periods of his life, spent in the bucolic village of Concord, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “I don’t know when I have read a book as satisfying as \u003ci\u003eHawthorne in Concord\u003c\/i\u003e.” —David Herbert Donald","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132476932336,"sku":"9781555846886","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555846886_p0.jpg?v=1769899113","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555846886","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}