The Nathaniel Hawthorne Page
Major Works
The handiest collection of Hawthorne's fiction is to be found in the two Hawthorne volumes of the Library of America, Novels and Tales and Sketches, selected and annotated by Millicent Bell and Roy Harvey Pearce, respectively. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales, edited by James McIntosh, is a Norton Critical Edition.
Fanshawe ( 1828 ).
Twice-Told Tales ( 1837 ) This volume, and the one following, contain short stories.
Mosses from an Old Manse ( 1846 ).
The Scarlet Letter ( 1850 ). The Norton Critical Edition is edited by Seymour Gross, Scully Bradley, Richmond Croom Bestty, and E. Hudson Long.
The House of the Seven Gables ( 1851 ). The Norton Critical Edition is edited by Seymour Gross.
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys ( 1852 ). This volume, and the one following, contain retellings of Classical myths.
Tanglewood Tales ( 1853 ).
The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales ( 1852 ).
The Blithedale Romance ( 1852 ). The Norton Critical Edition is edited by Seymour Gross and Rosalie Murphy.
The Marble Faun ( 1860 ).
Other Works
Grandfather's Chair ( 1841 ). A child's history of New England of which Hawthorne was a deep student.
Life of Franklin Pierce( 1852 ). Hawthorne had been a classmate at Bowdoin.
About Hawthorne
Edwin Haviland Miller, Salem is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Iowa, 1991.
Randall Stewart, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography. Reprinted Archon, 1970.
Arlin Turner, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Oxford, 1980
Nathaniel Hawthorne. A comprehensive Hawthorne page from Eric Eldred.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Page from D. Campbell at Gonzaga University
Hawthorne Criticism from Internet Public Library.
Hawthorne in Salem from North Shore Community College.
A "Young Goodman Brown" Page from Florida Gulf Coast U.
Back to American Literature I