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“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

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Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

The Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition) is a comprehensive collection that brings together a selection of the renowned American author's most significant works. This collection includes 'Fanshawe', a semi-autobiographical novel, 'The Scarlet Letter', a tale of sin and redemption, 'The House of the Seven Gables', a gothic novel, 'The Blithedale Romance', a social commentary, 'The Marble Faun', a supernatural romance, 'The Dolliver Romance', a historical novel, 'Septimius Felton', a political satire, 'Grimshawe's Secret', a psychological novel, and concludes with a biography of Hawthorne. The illustrated edition adds a visual element to the text, enhancing the reader's experience of these literary masterpieces. more

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist known for his Gothic novels and romantic works. His writings often delve into themes of morality and sin, influenced by his family history and Puritan background. more

“As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.”

Men Feelings Age Asks Social Term Quality Genius Equal Fellows Acknowledge Generous Thrown Brotherhood Gifted Fellow Man Proverbial Fellow Feeling

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.”

Ifs Years Heart Would Be Age Mankind Thousand Standing Remains Conservative Intellect Thousand Years Commonplace Great Conservative

Book:Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source: Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.”

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.”

Sometimes Lost Honey Bees

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The present is burthened too much with the past.”

Past Too Much

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

Ifs Needs Should Book America Given Chance Mystery Taste Succeed Should Have Sells Ashamed Trash

Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

“It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.”

May Spiritual Form Symbols Catholicism Multitudes Supplies

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.”

Years Mean Running Twenties Debt Forty Pounds

Book:The Church Porch, :... [being the Introduction to the Poem Entitled

Source: The Church Porch, :... [being the Introduction to the Poem Entitled

“Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.”

Heart May Hands Lord Gold Praise Dust Thee Easter Delay Risen

Book:The Works of the Rev. George Hebert

Source: The Works of the Rev. George Hebert

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