Passages from the American Notebooks

1871. Two Volumes in One. Hawthorne, who, like Edgar Allan Poe, took a dark view of human nature, was a central figure in the American Renaissance. His best-known works include The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. After his death his wife edited and published his notebooks Passages from the American Notebooks, Passages from the English Notebooks, and Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks. A fabulous revelation of Hawthorne's reflections, musings, and experiences as set down by him in a series of quotidian notebooks. There is no theme except life as he lived it. For a bibliophile who inclines to like 19th century American literature, this is a bit of magic.