The complete online text of The Intelligence Office (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...

A U.S. soldier facing trial in the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence officer at a checkpoint in Iraq said he had no choice but to fire, a newspaper reported Monday.Spc. Mario Lozano said the agent's vehicle kept approaching after he flashed a warning light...

A U.S. soldier facing trial in the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence officer at a checkpoint in Iraq said he had no choice but to fire, a newspaper reported Monday.Spc. Mario Lozano said the agent's vehicle kept approaching after he flashed a warning light...