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From the building of the Erie Canal, to the steel plow being invented. From the invention of the telegraph, to Thomas Edison creating the first light bulb. While all of these inventions have stood the test of time, one has lasted just as long; the inspiring tales a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. His name by birth was Nathaniel Hawthorne. He added the w to his name when he began to sign his stories. ("Nathaniel Hawthorne" American Writers II) One of Hawthorne's ancestors was actually a judge in the Salem witch trials. The guilt and shame Hawthorne felt of his ancestors were included in some of his stories. (McGraw Hill, pg.67) Hawthorne's father was a sea captain. He died of fever when Hawthorne was only four. Shortly after his father's death, his mother was forced to move her three children into her parent's home and then into her brother's home in Maine. Hawthorne's childhood was not particularly abnormal, as many famous authors have claimed to have. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated after four years. After graduation, he returned to Salem. Contrary to his family's expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he mov
" I had read endlessly all sorts of good and good for nothing books, and in dearth of other employment, had early begun to scribble sketches and stories, most of which I burned. Edgar Allen Poe called Hawthorne, " the example, par excellence, in this country, of the privately admired and publicly unappreciated man of genius. The contrast between his old ways and this new way of life was a shock for Hawthorne. He traveled to New Haven, to Swampscott, and to the mountains of Vermont. Hawthorne called The Scarlet Letter, " positively a hell-fired story, into which I found it almost impossible to throw any cheering light. Sadly, none of these novels reached the acclaim that The Scarlet Letter had with critics. " It was no doubt Hawthorne's most widely known story he ever wrote. Hawthorne soon realized that supporting a wife was not as easy as he anticipated it to be.
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