Selected Tales and Sketches

Title: Selected Tales and Sketches
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fiction: 1694021
ISBN: 9780140390575
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 1987
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Fiction | Classics
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.