The complete online text of Sketches from Memory (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...

Began harvest this week. Corn very poor in the Garden. Potatoes more than middling considering the drought. -- From William Emerson's diaries, 1775 It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the...

Byline: Tom Farmer A $1.3 million Chestnut Hill mansion undergoing renovations was gutted early yesterday by a massive fire that has all the markings of arson, officials said. "It's suspicious to the point where we've called in the State Fire Marshal's...