The complete online text of Main Street 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...

The walls are bare, the closets are empty, and Connie and Timothy Pent and their two teenage children are living out of boxes as they wait for a dreaded knock at the door of their three-bedroom house in Ocala, Fla.They've fallen behind in payments on...

Wall Street players aren't the only ones with a lot riding on whether the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates on Tuesday _ Main Street could also see some pretty dramatic benefits.Policy makers are widely expected to decrease short-term rates by up to one-half of one...

The mixed reviews Barack Obama got from his audience this morning may have been just what he was looking for. In midtown to deliver a speech to Wall Street executives at the Nasdaq corporate headquarters, he talked about financial policy from a distinctly consumer point...

The mixed reviews Barack Obama got from his audience this morning may have been just what he was looking for. In midtown to deliver a speech to Wall Street executives at the Nasdaq corporate headquarters, he talked about financial policy from a distinctly consumer point...