Author: Nathaniel Nathaniel

The principal setting is a communal farm called Blithedale (i.e., ‘Happy Valley’), a would-be modern Arcadia along the lines of the anti-capitalist ideals of Charles Fourier, yet is nonetheless destr …

The Marble Faun is Hawthorne’s most unusual romance, and possibly one of the strangest major works of American fiction. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fant …

The Scarlet Letter : A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. …