Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804–1864)

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American novelist and short story writer
one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

Works

Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Letter to the editor of the Literary World (1850)
Life of Franklin Pierce (1852) (start transcription)
Mainly About War Matters (1863)
Our Old Home (1863)
Passages from the French and Italian note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2 vol., (1871) Vol 1: (transcription project) Vol 2: (transcription project)

Novels

Fanshawe (1828) (external scan)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun, 2 vols. (1860) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
The Dolliver Romance (1863) unfinished work (external scan)
Septimus Felton (1872) published posthumously (external scan)
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance (1882) unfinished work (transcription project)

Short stories

Collections

Twice-Told Tales (1837; 2^nd Ed., 1841; two-volume set, 1851 [Volume 2, (transcription project))
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846; 2^nd Ed., 1854) (transcription project)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851)
- 1852 edition (transcription project)
The Snow Image (1851) (external scan)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1882)
Little Daffydowndilly, and other stories (1887)
Tales of the White Hills, and sketches (1889)

Individual stories

From Twice-Told Tales, 1^st Edition (1837):
- “The Gray Champion”
- “Sunday at Home”
- “The Wedding Knell”
- “The Minister’s Black Veil”
  - Also in The Lock and Key Library, Volume 9, edited by Julian Hawthorne
- “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”
- “The Gentle Boy”
- “Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe”
- “Little Annie’s Ramble”
- “Wakefield”
- “A Rill from the Town Pump”
- “The Great Carbuncle”
- “The Prophetic Pictures”
- “David Swan”
- “Sights from a Steeple”
- “The Hollow of the Three Hills”
- “The Vision of the Fountain”
- “Fancy’s Show Box”
- “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
From Mosses from an Old Manse (1846), as collected from numerous editions (1891):
- “The Old Manse”
- “The Birthmark”
- “A Select Party”
- “Young Goodman Brown”
- “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
- “Mrs. Bullfrog”
- “Fire Worship”
- “Buds and Bird Voices”
- “Monsieur du Miroir”
- “The Hall of Fantasy”
- “The Celestial Rail-road”
- “The Procession of Life”
- “Feathertop”
- “The New Adam and Eve”
- “Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent”
- “The Christmas Banquet”
- “Drowne’s Wooden Image”
- “The Intelligence Office”
- “Roger Malvin’s Burial”
- “P.’s Correspondence”
- “Earth’s Holocaust”
- “Passages from a Relinquished Work”
- “Sketches from Memory”
- “The Old Apple-Dealer”
- “The Artist of the Beautiful”
- “A Virtuoso’s Collection”
From A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851):
- “The Gorgon’s Head”
- “The Golden Touch”
- “The Paradise of Children”
- “The Three Golden Apples”
- “The Miraculous Pitcher”
- “The Chimæra”
From The Snow Image (1851):
- “The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle”
- “The Great Stone Face”
- “Main-Street”
- “Ethan Brand”
- “A Bell’s Biography”
- “Sylph Etherege”
- “The Canterbury Pilgrims”
- “Old News”
- “The Man of Adamant”
- “The Devil in Manuscript”
- “John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving”
- “Old Ticonderoga”
- “The Wives of the Dead”
- “Little Daffydowndilly”
- “Major Molineux”
From Twice-Told Tales (1851), Vol. 2:
- “Legends of the Province House”
- “The Haunted Mind”
- “The Village Uncle”
- “The Ambitious Guest”
- “The Sister Years”
- “Snow Flakes”
- “The Seven Vagabonds”
- “The White Old Maid”
- “Peter Goldthwaite’s Treasure”
- “Chippings with a Chisel”
- “The Shaker Bridal”
- “Night Sketches”
- “Endicott and the Red Cross”
- “The Lily’s Quest”
- “Foot-Prints on the Seashore”
- “Edward Fane’s Rosebud”
- “The Threefold Destiny”
From Tanglewood Tales (1853):
- “The Wayside”
- “The Minotaur”
- “The Pygmies”
- “The Dragon’s Teeth”
- “Circe’s Palace”
- “The Pomegranate Seeds”
- “The Golden Fleece”
From The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1882):
- "The Great Stone Face"
- "The Ambitious Guest"
- "The Great Carbuncle"
- "Sketches from Memory"
From Little Daffydowndilly, and other stories (1887):
- “Little Daffydowndilly”
- “Little Annie’s Ramble”
- “The Snow-Image”
- “A Rill from the Town Pump”
- “David Swan”
- “The Vision of the Fountain”
- “The Threefold Destiny”
From Tales of the White Hills, and sketches (1889):
- “The Great Stone Face”
- “The Ambitious Guest”
- “The Great Carbuncle”
- “Sketches from Memory”
- “My Visit to Niagara”
- “Old Ticonderoga”
- “The Sister Years”
From Little Masterpieces (1897):
- “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
- “The Birthmark”
- “Ethan Brand”
- “Wakefield”
- “Drowne’s Wooden Image”
- “The Ambitious Guest”
- “The Great Stone Face”
- “The Gray Champion”
The Ghost of Dr. Harris (1900)

Poetry

Essays

Main-street (1849)
"A Scene from the Dolliver Romance" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (81) (July, 1864)

Diaries

"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books I." in The Atlantic Monthly, 17 (99) (January, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books II." in The Atlantic Monthly, 17 (100) (February, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books III." in The Atlantic Monthly, 17 (101) (March, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books VII." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (July, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books VIII." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (106) (August, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books IX." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (107) (September, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books X." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (108) (October, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books XI." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (109) (November, 1866)
"Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books XII." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (110) (December, 1866)

Works about Hawthorne

Books

Hawthorne (1880) by Henry James (external scan)
Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife; a Biography by Julian Hawthorne (1895) (external scan) (start transcription)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1902) by George Edward Woodberry

On his works

"Review of Twice-Told Tales" by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" by Herman Melville (1850)
"Blithedale Romance, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"House of the Seven Gables," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Marble Faun, The," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Scarlet Letter," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Twice Told Tales, The," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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