The complete online text of Sketches from Memory 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...

Bill Ervolino, Record Television Editor The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-11-1991 QUICK SKETCHES FROM YOUNG MASTERS By Bill Ervolino, Record Television Editor Date: 10-11-1991, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 6 Star, 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star,...

THE ELIOTIC KENNAN ANY PERSON WHO decides to publish excerpts from his diaries runs a serious risk of self-indulgence, and George F. Kennan is no exception. Sketches from a Life (Pantheon, 369 pp., $22.95), a collection of travel notes spanning more than...