Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-166) and index.
Contents
Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hawthorne's career and contributions to American literature -- Short stories I: the New England tales -- Short stories II: artists, seekers, and solitaries -- The scarlet letter (1850) -- The house of the seven gables (1851) -- The Blithedale romance (1852) -- The marble faun (1860).