The complete online text of Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. 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...

The impact of poetry on the life of Adrienne Rich is described in her book 'What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics.' Rich describes the influence of Rilke, Auden, Eliot and Stevens on her work at various times in her life, from...

Levi, Giovanni, and Jean-Claude Schmitt, eds. A History of Young People in the West, Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage; Volume 2: Stormy Evolution to Modern Times Trans. Camille Nash (volume 1) and Carol Volk (Volume 2) Cambridge: Harvard University Press...