Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parables, Fantasies, Fragments

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Published by Library of America, 2026-10-27

"Here for the first time Nathaniel Hawthorne's mind-bending short parables, fantasies, and fragments have been collected by an eminent Hawthorne scholar, Robert S. Levine, culled from the author's notebooks. These short entries are intriguing and accessible (and sometimes very funny). Robert Levine is Distinguished University Professor, English, at the University of Maryland. He is the author of numerous books, including The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard UP, 2016) and The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (W. W. Norton, 2021). His biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe is forthcoming from Norton next year"--