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A smart collection of thirteen volumes of the works of American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Complete in thirteen volumes. Riverside edition. Illustrated with etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. With a frontispiece to each volume. The complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer whose works often focus on history, morality, and religion. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, where he was raised, and many works feature moral metaphors with an anti-Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement, or Dark Romanticism. With an introduction from George Parsons Lathrop, an American poet, novelist, and newspaper editor known for pioneering copyright laws in the United States. Volume XIII edited by Julian Hawthorne, an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. This set contains: Volume I - Twice-Told Tales. Volume II - Mosses from An Old Manse. Volume III - The House of the Seven Gables & The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. Volume IV - A Wonder-Books, Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's Chair. Volume V - The Scarlet Letter & The Blithedale Romance. Volume VI - The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni. Volume VII - Our Old Home, and English Notebooks. Volume I. Volume VIII - Our Old Home, and English Notebooks. Volume II. Volume IX - Passages from the American Notebooks. Volume X - Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks. Volume XI - The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimus Felton. Volume XII - Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers. Volume XIII - Doctor Grimshaw's Secret: A Romance. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and bumping to the head and tail of the spines. The odd small mark to the boards with small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spines. Front hinge starting but firm to volumes III, VI. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Title page of volume XI loosening with a 5" tear at the hinge. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good.
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