The complete online text of The Three Golden Apples 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 Mac is a superior product. So why does it seem destined for market oblivion? Your typical preacher at a religious revival speaks of the resurrection of the dead -- the crucial instance of which, he'll tell you, occurred two thousand years...

In the increasing and frightening polarization of the races in this society, David N. Dinkins's win over Mayor Edward I. Koch in Tuesday's New York primary has to be one of the brightest rays of hope in recent years. It is the hope...