Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century short story writer and novelist. The Scarlet Letter is his most famous novel. President Pierce appointed Hawthorne United States Consul at Liverpool. The years Hawthorne spent in England were some of his happiest and most trying. He held this post for four years. The time Hawthorne spent in public office gave him a chance to leave writing and observe the world. His attention to exact detail transports the reader into his novels. The legend of a bloody foot leaving its imprint where it passed is prominent in this story. The idea was brought to Hawthorne's notice on a visit to Smithell's Hall in Lancashire. Hawthorne went there by invitation, and the lady of the manor asked him "to write a ghost-story for her house." In Septimius Felton Hawthorne ponders the idea of immortality.
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It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,-beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,-so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quoth the doctor, bloody footstep, bloody track, little hillock, wise rules Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Keziah, Robert Hagburn, Sibyl Dacy, Doctor Portsoaken, Rose Garfield, Black Man, New England, Septimius Felton, Sir Forrester New!
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It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,-beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,-so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quoth the doctor, bloody footstep, bloody track, little hillock, wise rules Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Keziah, Robert Hagburn, Sibyl Dacy, Doctor Portsoaken, Rose Garfield, Black Man, New England, Septimius Felton, Sir Forrester New!
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- The Ancestral Footstep by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Front Matter
- The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni (Modern Library Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Front Matter
- The Dolliver Romance (Dodo Press) by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Front Matter
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition and Revolution (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Charles Swann on 10 pages
- Hawthorne (Cornell Paperbacks) by Henry James on page 110, page 141, and page 142
- A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop on page 46, page 113, and page 125
- The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance by Arthur Versluis on page 82, page 83, and page 84
- The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: Alchemical Regeneration in the Works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller (Contributions to the Study of American Literature) by Randall A. Clack on page 84, page 108, and page 109
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