by
Julian Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s circle included Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Henry James, Robert Browning, Julia Ward Howe, and President Franklin Pierce. This lively son’s-eye-view, published in 1884, portrays the up-and-down life, work, and travels of a literary genius and his friends and associates in a time of intellectual ferment and social upheaval.