Nathaniel Hawthorne Books


The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (1850) is Nathaniel Hawthorne's romantic novel set in 17th-century Puritan Boston. It is the story of Hester Prynne, an adulteress who struggles to create a new life of dignity and ..

An Old Woman's Tale

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An Old Woman's Tale is a science fiction short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this story a young couple, David and Esther, either witnessed, or else dreamed that they witnessed, the return of long d..

Main-Street

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Main-Street is a narrative history of the metamorphosis of a pathway through a primordial, untouched forest barely trodden by moccasined Indians into a busy main-street thoroughfare that winds through..

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. In Hawthorne, Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions"...

The Great Stone Face

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains is a collection of short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. The..

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a Ne..

The Three Golden Apples

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Three Golden Apples is part of the Nathaniel Hawthorne's series of A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New Engla..

A Bell's Biography

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Bell's Biography is a short story from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Snow-Image And Other Twice-Told Tales...