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"I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spirit and mechanism of the fairyland should be combined with the characters and manners of familiar life."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne is an American novelist and short story writer, the most famous novel that he did is, The Scarlet Letter. He called himself a writer of romances, allegorical tales of times long past with supernatural overtones. However, many of his stories came right out of the pages of his own family history in Salem. He was still struggling to relieve himself of the heavy psychic burden of his family's past.
Puritanism had shaped his first full-length romance written in 1850, The Scarlet Letter, with its emphasis on secret sin, pride, vengefulness and shame. The House of the Seven Gables, in 1851, continued to deal with this burden in its opening lines that described a witch's curse on a Puritan magistrate who choked to death on his own blood.
Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804, where his house is now a house museum. He is a son of a captain. Hawthorne turned to writing after his graduation from Bowdoin College. He wrote several successful short stories which were collected in Twice-Told Tales in 1837.
However, insufficient earnings as a writer forced him to take a job in Salem Custom House. In 1842, after he was able to earn money he marries Sophia Peabody and move to Concord.
Hawthorne returned to Salem in 1845. Five years after his most famous novel, The Scarlet Letter was published. His next novel was The House of the Seven Gables in 1851. He also wrote classic works for children entitled A Wonder Book in 1852 and Tanglewood Tales in 1853, which was a re-writing some of the most famous...
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