Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author · 12 titles

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) is one of the founding masters of American literature — a novelist and short-story writer who made New England's Puritan past into a living moral drama. The Scarlet Letter remains his masterpiece: a study of guilt, secrecy, and public shame that still feels unsettlingly modern. In The House of the Seven Gables and Twice-Told Tales he returned again and again to inheritance, isolation, and the weight of ancestral sin. Hawthorne wrote allegory with a novelist's eye for character — cool, ironical, and deeply compassionate. His twelve titles here open a door into the American imagination at its most searching.