Waubonsee Community College

Hawthorne, a life, Brenda Wineapple

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-486) and index

individual biography

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Hawthorne

bibliography

51041950

Brenda Wineapple

a life

Hawthorne himself declared that he was not "one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit" for the public Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. "He always puts himself in his books," said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, "he cannot help it." His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow. [In this volume, the author] navigates the high tides and chill under-currents of Hawthorne's life ... In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.-Dust jacket

Prison door, introductory -- Home -- The forest of Arden -- The era of good feelings -- That dream of undying fame -- Storyteller -- Mr. Wakerfield -- The wedding knell --- The sister years -- Romance of the revenue service -- The world found out -- Beautiful enough -- Repatriation -- Salem recidivus -- Scarlet letters -- The uneven balance -- The hidden life of property -- Citizen of somewhere else -- The main chance -- This farther flight -- Truth stranger than fiction -- Questions of travel -- Things to see and suffer -- Between two counties -- The smell of gunpowder -- A handful of moments -- The painted veil