nathaniel hawthorne
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On Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Funeral
It was, by all accounts I’ve found, a beautiful day. Late in May, after a week of rain in Concord, it was a sunny day of blue skies. Nathaniel Hawthorne had died on May 19, 1864 while traveling in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with his Bowdoin College friend, the former US President Franklin Continue reading
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Used Bookstore Haul (Delillo, Melville, Hawthorne and Doctorow) 9.16.22
Today’s best find at the used bookstore was a first edition of Libra by Don DeLillo for $5.00. Got the entire stack for under $20. The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Pierre by Melville, and The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow included. Continue reading
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8 Photos from a trip to The Old Manse in Concord 9.10.22
I visited The Old Manse today. This is a house built in 1770 for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s grandfather, William Emerson. Emerson and Hawthorne both lived there for short periods of time in the 1830s and 1840s. All the photos are mine. The words are mostly by Hawthorne. The Old Manse on 09.10.2022. Between two tall Continue reading
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On the novel Wieland (1798) by Charles Brockden Brown
A friend told me that Wieland was the poet Shelley’s favorite novel. It was published in 1798, the same year as Lyrical Ballads Continue reading
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