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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864 / the United States)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the ... more »
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''Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?''
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), U.S. author. Clifford Pyncheon, in The House of the Seven Gables, ch. 17 (1851).
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I shall never love England till she sues to us for help; and, in the meantime, the fewer triumphs she obtains, the better for all the parties. An Englishman in adversity is a very respectable characte...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), U.S. author. English Notebooks, entry for October 6, 1854 (1870, revised 1941).
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Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary an...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), U.S. author. English Notebooks, entry for March 27, 1856 (1870, rev. 1941).
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''A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.''
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), U.S. author. English Notebooks, journal entry, March 16, 1854 (1870, revised 1941).
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