Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times - Softcover

Mellow, James R.

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9780395321355: Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395321352 ISBN 13: 9780395321355

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1982

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A full-length portrait of one of America's great writers brings to life Hawthorne's experiences and the age he lived in, detailing his courtship of Sophia Peabody and his relationships with Melville, Poe, Emerson, and others.

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Review:

"Fluent and colorful." -- John Updike, New Yorker

"In his exceptional biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, James R. Mellow superbly blends biography and history to reflect the general milieu in the life of a particular individual. One grows to understand Hawthorne not only as a writer but also as a politician, traveller and family man in 19th-century America." -- Dallas Morning News

"Impressive... Mellow's primary obligation, to fill in the days and years of the life of America's first important novelist, he fulfills religiously... He frequently bridges the gap between Hawthorne's 'external' and 'inward' life by means of his fictions, finding in them evidence of Hawthorne's mental or emotional state. These interpretations are always fresh, sometimes daring." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A fascinating revelation of nineteenth-century literary life." -- Historian

About the Author:

James R. Mellow was before his death in 1998 an acclaimed biographer whose other books include Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company, Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences.

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