The complete online text of Little Daffydowndilly by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...

In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...

Take the word "baked" and add the word "beans" and you have created a staple of warm-weather eating. And, with Memorial Day right around the corner, those beans will be on the menu once again. "We go through a lot of them," says...

Byline: ADAM LEE-POTTER MARK Little yearns to be taken seriously. 'I am an artist ,' he pouts, more comical than pretentious as he flexes his prize-fighter knuckles. 'A Serious Actor, that's where I really excel. But I haven't been given a chance.'...