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Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. Mellow ISBN: 0-8018-5900-X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: the shyest grape
Comment: A remarkable literary biography, this, that succeeds in conveying both a sense of Hawthorne, the writer, and Hawthorne, the man. It also builds up a most appealing set of mini portraits of some fascinating figures from the first half of the 19th century, among them the Peabody sisters [family of Hawthorne's wife, Sophia], Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, Bronson Alcott [father of Louisa May], Melville, and countless others. What an extraordinary period this was in American cultural life! It's not a short read, but it's never dull, and, more often than not, close to rivetting. Mellow uses to wonderful effect extracts from Hawthorne's letters and notebooks, allowing "the shyest grape" of them all [Melville about Hawthorne] to speak directly. Not afraid to use Hawthorne's fiction as a way into our knowledge of the man, Mellow is, nevertheless, mostly restrained, aware that the relationship between a life and its work is seldom simple. If, very occasionally, the insights Mellow comes up with border on the facile, there are enough genuinely interesting thoughts to keep the literary analysis helpful. But the great success of the book lies, I think, in its even-handedness and neutrality of tone, and in its richness of detail - excellent notes and index, too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommend this biography
Comment: I have recently continued my reading journey by moving to non-fiction, including biographies. This is a very easy book to read. I have found myself liking Hawthorne and sometime I have to keep reading to find out what happens next in his life instead of going to sleep. I also find it very interesting finding out how people lived 150 years ago. Their problems are the same ones we have today - money, kids, in-laws, etc. They have gardens in the summer, growing the same vegatables, and are snowed in during the winter. New England never changes. I have read W. Manchester's biographies of Douglas MacArthur and the Krupps and Thayer's biography of Beethoven This book is as good as those three.
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Title: Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Edwin Haviland Miller ISBN: 0877453810 Publisher: University of Iowa Press Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hawthorne (Cornell Paperbacks) by Henry James, Dan McCall ISBN: 0801484790 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Hawthorne : A Life by BRENDA WINEAPPLE ISBN: 0375400443 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa (New York Review Books) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul Auster ISBN: 1590170423 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ISBN: 0312282990 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 25 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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