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“Nathaniel Hawthorne was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804. He led a shy and rather somber life with little encouragement to write, yet not wholly uncongenial in view of his temperament. His life is reflected in his \u201cTwice-Told Tales\u201d and other short stories, the product of his first literary period. In these stories, his understanding of men and women was displayed with great subtlety.<\/p>\n
He was forty-six years old when \u201cThe Scarlet Letter\u201d appeared. It is considered his best work, and is a good demonstration of his unique and imaginative mind. In 1850, the year \u201cThe Scarlet Letter\u201d appeared, he began \u201cThe House of the Seven Gables,\u201d a later romance or prose-tragedy of the Puritan-America as he knew it \u2013 missing art and the joy of life.” “Nathaniel Hawthorne was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804. He led a shy and rather somber life with little encouragement to write, yet not wholly uncongenial in view of his temperament. His life is reflected in his \u201cTwice-Told Tales\u201d and other short stories, the product of his first literary period. In these stories, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/josephcowley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBarns&Noble<\/a>
\nKindle<\/a>
\nNook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"