The complete online text of Passages from a Relinquised Work (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...

Two local real estate veterans take different poetic journeys The art of persuasion inevitably comes into play when real estate brokers work to develop and close deals. It may come as no surprise that some of these animated and expressive professionals have more...

BANGALORE - In the early 1960s, V.S. Naipaul wrote in his classic work on India, "An Area of Darkness," that India was "the poorest country in the world." There are indeed areas of grinding poverty and degradation in India. But today, 30 years later,...