About Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where he wrote the bulk of his masterful tales of American colonial history. His career as a novelist began with The Scarlet Letter (1850) and also includes The house of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. Nina Baym is Director of the School of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Illinois. She has published widely on Hawthorne and other American writers.
Novels
Fanshawe (1828)
The Gray Champion (1835)
The Devil in Manuscript (1835)
The White Old Maid (1835)
Dr Heidegger's Experiment (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1841)
The Birthmark (1843)
Earth's Holocaust (1844)
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)
The Artist of the Beautiful (1844)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Ethan Brand (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
Feathertop (1852)
Puritan Passions (1853)
The Marble Faun (1860)
aka The Romance of Monte Beni
Septimius: A Romance (1872)
aka Septimius Felton
The Ancestral Footstep (1882)
Dr Grimshaw's Secret: A Romance (1883)
The Gray Champion (1835)
The Devil in Manuscript (1835)
The White Old Maid (1835)
Dr Heidegger's Experiment (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1841)
The Birthmark (1843)
Earth's Holocaust (1844)
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)
The Artist of the Beautiful (1844)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Ethan Brand (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
Feathertop (1852)
Puritan Passions (1853)
The Marble Faun (1860)
aka The Romance of Monte Beni
Septimius: A Romance (1872)
aka Septimius Felton
The Ancestral Footstep (1882)
Dr Grimshaw's Secret: A Romance (1883)
Omnibus
Scarlett Letter / Moby Dick / Red Badge of Courage/ Bridge of San Luis Rey (1959) (with Stephen Crane, Herman Melville and Thornton Wilder)
The Scarlet Letter / The House of the Seven Gables (1986)
The Scarlet Letter / The House of the Seven Gables (1986)
Collections
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
The Snow-Image: And Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches (1863)
The Dolliver Romance: And Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face: And Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
Tanglewood Tales (1906)
Tales from a Wonder Book (1927)
The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorn (1937)
The complete Greek stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne from the 'Wonder book' and 'Tanglewood tales' (1963)
The Celestial Railroad: And Other Stories (1968)
The Popular Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1971)
Tales and Sketches (1982)
Young Goodman Brown: And Other Short Stories (1992)
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (2004)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
The Snow-Image: And Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches (1863)
The Dolliver Romance: And Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face: And Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
Tanglewood Tales (1906)
Tales from a Wonder Book (1927)
The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorn (1937)
The complete Greek stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne from the 'Wonder book' and 'Tanglewood tales' (1963)
The Celestial Railroad: And Other Stories (1968)
The Popular Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1971)
Tales and Sketches (1982)
Young Goodman Brown: And Other Short Stories (1992)
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (2004)
Chapbooks
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Second Round of Tales (1926)
American Ghost Stories (1928)
A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
A Century of Ghost Stories (1936)
Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956)
Black Tales (1965)
Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (1966)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
The Ghouls Book 1 (1971)
The Necromancers (1971)
Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America Volume 2 (1972)
The Other Dimension (1972)
The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories XIII: Russian, etc. and XIV: American (1976)
Roots of Evil (1976)
aka Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Black Water (1984)
Stories of Crime and Detection 2nd Series (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume One (1988)
Tales of the Occult (1989)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1993)
Tales of the Wandering Jew (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
The Giant Book of Myths and Legends (1995)
Shivers for Christmas (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Bodies of the Dead: And Other Great American Ghost Stories (1997)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)
American Ghost Stories (1928)
A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
A Century of Ghost Stories (1936)
Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956)
Black Tales (1965)
Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (1966)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
The Ghouls Book 1 (1971)
The Necromancers (1971)
Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America Volume 2 (1972)
The Other Dimension (1972)
The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories XIII: Russian, etc. and XIV: American (1976)
Roots of Evil (1976)
aka Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Black Water (1984)
Stories of Crime and Detection 2nd Series (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume One (1988)
Tales of the Occult (1989)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1993)
Tales of the Wandering Jew (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
The Giant Book of Myths and Legends (1995)
Shivers for Christmas (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Bodies of the Dead: And Other Great American Ghost Stories (1997)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)
Short stories
| The Christmas Banquet (1813) | |||
| The Hollow of the Three Hills (1830) | |||
| Roger Malvin's Burial (1832) | |||
| Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe (1834) | |||
| The Devil in Manuscript [short story] (1835) | |||
| The Gray Champion [short story] (1835) | |||
| The Man of Adamant (1835) | |||
| Wakefield (1835) | |||
| Young Goodman Brown [short story] (1835) | |||
| Dr Heidegger's Experiment [short story] (1837) | |||
| The Great Carbuncle (1837) | |||
| A Virtuoso's Collection [short story] (1842) | |||
| The Birthmark [short story] (1843) | |||
| The Celestial Railroad [short story] (1843) | |||
| Egotism; or the Bosom Serpent (1843) | |||
| Earth's Holocaust [short story] (1844) aka Earth's Last Holocaust | |||
| Rappaccini's Daughter [short story] (1844) | |||
| The Artist of the Beautiful [short story] (1846) | |||
| The Chimera (1851) | |||
| Edward Randolph's Portrait (1851) | |||
| The Golden Touch (1851) | |||
| The Gorgon's Head (1851) | |||
| Howe's Masquerade (1851) | |||
| Lady Eleanore's Mantle (1851) | |||
| The Miraculous Pitcher (1851) | |||
| Old Esther Dudley (1851) | |||
| The Paradise of Children (1851) | |||
| The Snow Image - A Childish Miracle (1851) | |||
| The Three Golden Apples (1851) | |||
| Ethan Brand [short story] (1852) | |||
| Feathertop: A Moralized Legend (1852) | |||
| Circe's Palace (1853) | |||
| The Dragon's Teeth (1853) | |||
| The Golden Fleece (1853) | |||
| The Minotaur (1853) | |||
| The Pomegranate Seeds (1853) | |||
| The Pygmies (1853) | |||
| The Wayside (1853) | |||
| From the 'American Notebooks' (1868) | |||
| The Ghost of Dr Harris (1900) | |||
| The Ambitious Guest | |||
| The Canterbury Pilgrims | |||
| Chippings with a Chisel | |||
| David Swan | |||
| Drowne's Wooden Image | |||
| Edward Fane's Rosebud | |||
| Endicott and the Red Cross | |||
| A Fantasy-David Swan | |||
| The Gentle Boy | |||
| The Great Stone Face [short story] | |||
| The House of the Seven Gables [short story] | |||
| John Inglefield's Thanksgiving | |||
| The Lily's Quest | |||
| Little Daffydowndilly | |||
| Major Molineux | |||
| The May-Pole of Merry Mount | |||
| The Minister's Black Veil | |||
| Mrs Bullfrog | |||
| My Kinsman, Major Molineux | |||
| Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure | |||
| The Procession of Life | |||
| The Prophetic Pictures | |||
| Puritan Passions [short story] | |||
| The Scarlet Letter [short story] | |||
| The Seven Vagabonds | |||
| The Shaker Bridal | |||
| Sights from a Steeple | |||
| The Sister Years | |||
| Sunday at Home | |||
| Sylph Etherege | |||
| The Threefold Destiny | |||
| The Toll-Gatherer's Day | |||
| The Vision of the Fountain | |||
| The Wedding Knell | |||
| The White Old Maid [short story] | |||
| The Wives of the Dead |
Books about Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne Was Relevant (1972) by Robert Penn Warren
An American Tradition: Three Studies : Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James (1987) by Maurice J Bennett
Citizens of Somewhere Else: Nathaniel Hawthorne And Henry James (1999) by Dan McCall
Hawthorne Revisited: Honoring the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth (2004) by Louis Auchincloss
An American Tradition: Three Studies : Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James (1987) by Maurice J Bennett
Citizens of Somewhere Else: Nathaniel Hawthorne And Henry James (1999) by Dan McCall
Hawthorne Revisited: Honoring the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth (2004) by Louis Auchincloss
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