My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" was first published in the 1832 issue of The Token, an annual collection of fiction, poetry, and essays generally bought as a Christmas present. It was one of four stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the issue, but like all of the pieces in the magazine, it did not carry the author's name. The story was not a favorite of the author's, and it drew no special attention from readers. It...

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My Kinsman, Major Molineux - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1832

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My Kinsman, Major Molineux - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1832 Introduction "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832) is an early short story about American independence—that of an individual ... Read more

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The work of American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was based on the history of his Puritan ancestors and the New England of his own day but, in its "power of blackness," has universal... Read more

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was fond of calling himself the "obscurist man of letters in America." Indeed, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom Hawthorne basically created the short story form in America, once said tha... Read more

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In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his n... Read more

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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) o... Read more

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On 9 July 1842 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody were married in a simple ceremony that capped a courtship of nearly five years. Thus Hawthorne, at the age of thirty-eight, assumed his role as he... Read more

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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 contempor... Read more

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