The complete online text of Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") 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...

Francois Muir has given us novels and recits, but L'hypothese du miroir is, to my knowledge, the first collection of poems he has published, albeit volume 1 in a series of as yet unspecified length. The collection is divided into three parts, untitled like...

Seginger, Gisele. Nerval au miroir du temps: Les Filles du feu, Les Chimeres. Paris: Ellipses, 2004. Pp. 254. ISBN 2-7298-1745-X Gisele Seginger's new study of Gerard de Nerval offers a close re-reading of several of his important works, followed by analyses of later...