Published in 1852, this collection of short stories was the last to appear from the author in his lifetime. It includes a number of notable stories, among them ‘Ethan Brand, ‘ in which a man discovers ‘the unpardonable sin, ‘ ‘The Man of Adamant, ‘ in which a hermit undergoes a horrifying transformation, and ‘My Kinsman, Major Molineaux, ‘ a dark depiction of America at the time of the Revolution.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works were notable for their strong moral focus, hatred of hypocrisy, and a use of symbolism so lush and romantic as to almost constitute in itself a counter-argument to any morality but art for art’s sake. His best known work is The Scarlet Letter (1850).