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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hawthorne, by Henry James, Junr. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Author: Henry James, Junr. Release Date: June 12, 2006 [EBook #18566] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAWTHORNE *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net English Men of Letters EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY HAWTHORNE BY Henry James, JUNR. London MACMILLAN AND CO 1879 * * * * * CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS CHAPTER II. EARLY MANHOOD CHAPTER III. EARLY WRITINGS CHAPTER IV. BROOK FARM AND CONCORD CHAPTER V. THE THREE AMERICAN NOVELS CHAPTER VI. ENGLAND AND ITALY CHAPTER VII. LAST YEARS * * * * * HAWTHORNE. CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. It will be necessary, for several reasons, to give this short sketch the form rather of a critical essay than of a biography. The data for a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne are the reverse of copious, and even if they were abundant they would serve but in a limited measure the purpose of the biographer. Hawthorne's career was probably as tranquil and uneventful a one as ever fell to the lot of a man of letters; it was almost strikingly deficient in incident, in what may be called the dramatic quality. Few men of equal genius and of equal eminence can have led on the whole a simpler life. His six volumes of Note-Books illustrate this simplicity; they are a sort of monument to an unagitated fortune. Hawthorne's career had few vicissitudes or variations; it was passed for the most part in a small and homogeneous society, in a provincial, rural community; it had few perceptible points of contact with what is called the world, with public events, with the manners of his time
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