Nathaniel Hawthorne's status as an artist rests as much on The Scarlet Letter as on his short fictions. It is both telling and appropriate that academic researc

This book examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories.

Hawthorne was, with his own complicity, long described as a writer of unreal romances (as he preferred to call his novels) or "allegories of the heart" as he te

Presents a selection of fifteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.