The complete online text of The Hall of Fantasy (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...

AS USUAL with the Contemporary Music Network these days, presentation was paramount in Monday night's much-hyped "visualised concert", entitled From the Grammar of Dreams. During this 70-minute sequence of 10 pieces by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, four of the five almost identically yellow-trouser-suited...

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