HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.

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The Complete Writings. Old Manse edition of Hawthorne's collected works, richly illustrated. "Critics and biographers continue to regard Hawthorne as his distinguished contemporaries Fields and Melville did - as a shrewd and large-minded writer who read widely and pondered deeply about the human condition and about American identity from Puritan times to his own" (ANB).The illustrations are from several key American illustrators of the time including Jessie Wilcox Smith, Howard Pyle, Frank T. Merrill, Maude Cowles, and Sarah S. Stilwell. The Old Manse for which the edition is named was Hawthorne's home from 1842 until 1845, renting the house from the family of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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