Hawthorne & His Circle [Textbook Binding]

Julian Hawthorne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1921

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n Horatio Bridge's " I-told-you-so "—What a house by the sea might have done—Unknown Lenox—The restlessness of youth—The Unpardonable Sin and the Deathless Man — The little red house — Materials of culture —Our best playmates—The mystery of Mrs. Peter's dough—Our intellectual hen—Fishing for poultry— Yacht-building—Swimming with one foot on the ground —Shipwreck—Our playfellow the brook—Tanglewood —Nuts—Giants and enchanters—Coasting—Wet noses, dark eyes, ambrosial breath—My first horseback ride— Herman Melville's stories—Another kind of James— The thunder-storm—Yearning ladies and melancholy sinners—Hindlegs—Probable murder—"I abominate the sight of it!"—The peril of Tanglewood—The truth of fiction—An eighteen - months' work—We leave five cats behind. Horatio Bridge, my father's college friend, was a purser in the navy and lived in Augusta, Maine, his official residence being at Portsmouth. He had kept in closer touch with the romancer than any of his other friends had since their graduating days, and he had been from the first a believer in his coming literary renown. So, when The Scarlet Letter shone eminent in the firmament of book-land, it was his triumphant "I-told-you-so" that was among the earliest to be heard. And when myfather cast about for a more congenial place than Salem to live in, it was to Bridge that he applied for suggestions. He stipulated that the place should be somewhere along the New England sea-coast. Had this wish of his been fulfilled it might have made great differences. Hawthorne had always dwelt within sight and sound of the Atlantic, on which his forefathers had sailed so often between the Indies and Salem port, and Atlantic breezes were necessary to his complete well-being. At this juncture physical health had for the first time become an o...

Product Details

• Textbook Binding
• Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions (January 1921)
• ISBN-10: 0841450242
• ISBN-13: 978-0841450240