How Do You Like Your History? With Imaginative Leaps or Grounded in Fact?
Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history ...
The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years
The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.
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The story is old, but the horror feels fresh
“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835), “The Great God ... most recently the biography “Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey.” ...
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Larry Wilson: One big book and three big local spring literary festivals
Megan won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for her “Margaret Fuller ... being given the chance to look into the coffin of Una Hawthorne, Nathaniel’s daughter, “whose puckish disposition ...
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Charles I’s Killers in America: The Lives & Afterlives of Edward Whalley & William Goffe
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Southey. Although an earlier generation of historians dismissed the legend as itself a work of fiction, Jenkinson notes that there is evidence suggesting the story may ...
‘The Artist of the Beautiful’: Hawthorne’s Tale of Creation and Conflict
The American writer’s symbolic yet vividly rendered story depicts a maker of small objects of ‘delicate ingenuity’ whose ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Boyhood Home Launches “Buy a Brick, Build a Kitchen” Fundraising Campaign
RAYMOND – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Boyhood Home in Raymond (40 Hawthorne Road) — which now serves as a beloved community and cultural center for Sebago Lake area residents — needs a renovated kitchen to ...