Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students of English and American literature who need to understand the early biographical context of Hawthorne studies
- Readers preparing to read Hawthorne's works such as The Scarlet Letter who want background on the author's life first
- Enthusiasts interested in the history of 19th-century American literary criticism
- Readers with good English proficiency who are accustomed to reading public-domain English classics
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking the latest Hawthorne scholarship or contemporary critical perspectives
- Ordinary readers with limited English reading ability who need a Chinese translation
- Readers who only want Hawthorne's original fiction and have no interest in biographical material
Reading tips
- Read Hawthorne's representative work The Scarlet Letter or a selection of his short stories first, then return to the relevant chapters of the biography for comparison
- Compare the book's evaluative statements with modern Hawthorne scholarship, noting the distinction between historical fact and the author's judgment
- Read alongside selections from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters to supplement the private side not covered by the biography
- The English original is fairly long; reading it in stages according to periods of Hawthorne's life and taking brief notes is recommended
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) was an American literary critic and poet. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University in 1877, later taught comparative literature at the University of Nebraska and Columbia University, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His works include Nathaniel Hawthorne, a life of Edgar Allan Poe, A History of Wood-Engraving, and Heart of Man, and he also edited collections of Shelley, Poe, and de Vere. His writing, chiefly biography and literary criticism along with poetry, is marked by scholarly rigor and a humanistic tone. Three of his works are held in this catalog, commonly classified under inspirational growth.
