{"product_id":"selected-tales-and-sketches","title":"Selected Tales and Sketches","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSelected Tales and Sketches\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140390575\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1987\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Blithedale Romance\u003c\/i\u003e. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Selected Tales and Sketches | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Paperback | 9780140390575 | New | Fiction 1694021","offer_id":48165250072728,"sku":"1694021","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71nlzcMCsSL.jpg?v=1771918906","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/selected-tales-and-sketches","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}