Passages from the English Note-Books: An American Consul's Years in England

Hawthorne's notebooks from the four years he spent as American consul at Liverpool - the poverty of the port, the cathedrals, the English at close range, and the sea-change he never quite got over. He mined these for Our Old Home. This 60 plates of paintings by Constable, Turner, Cole and Biersta...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American writer born in Salem, Massachusetts, descended from a judge at the witch trials. He worked at the Boston Custom House, lived briefly at the Brook Farm commune, and served as United States consul at Liverpool. His works include The Scarlet Letter, Th...