Biography EssayIn 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 colon...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Neighbors have noticed some peculiar noises coming from inside the ancient Hotel Riverview in Greenwich Village.
Could it be the shrieking ghosts of the sunken Titanic, whose lost souls are rumored...
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Rules enacted after the 9/11 attacks are forcing fliers to check more bags into the cargo holds of planes rather than carry them onboard. As more bags get checked, more items are bound to get lost....
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“This is the only little piece left of what downtown used to look like,” said Robert Kremer, proprietor of the Pussycat Lounge, the 34-year-old topless bar-cum–rock concert club i...
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Soho! Just kidding.
Weeks ago we mathematically disproved the assertion that "The Garment District is the new Soho," though the Post apparently plugged its ears. So what does its cover story rep...
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Entering the mine at Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine is like being hit with a burst of air conditioning.
A staircase leads to a tunnel more than 30 feet below the eart...
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With the crack of the bat a brief stillness settled over the right-center field bleachers at AT&T Park as Barry Bonds' record-breaking homer rocketed toward the crowd.Then the scrum was on.As t...
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The fan who came up with Barry Bonds' record-tying 755th home run ball is cashing in. Adam Hughes, a 33-year-old plumber from La Jolla, Calif., said Friday that he was going to sell the souvenir th...
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As fan interference goes, Danny Vinik is more Jeffrey Maier than Steve Bartman.Vinik reached over the temporary photographers' box in front of the stands and kept Los Angeles Angels catcher Jeff Ma...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Endgame for Old New York at the Hotel Riverview
