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...
JOYCE Leiner has been queueing for some time to get her 12 dollars' worth of capsules, tablets and lozenges. The 59-year-old has finally reached the counter of the health food shop in downtown Chicago, and picks out her week's supply. As she turns away...
A Cambridge company searching for the secrets to human longevity, Elixir Pharmaceuticals, has suddenly seen its own time horizons shortened. The company's investors, it seems, don't have the patience to keep funding Elixir while it searches for the fountain of youth. They'd settle for...
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