Winner of the 1983 National Book Award, James R. Mellow's magisterial biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne places America's first great writer in the midst of the literary and cultural turmoil of the early republic. An unparalleled panorama of 19th-century American intellectual life, the biography convincingly traces Hawthorne's literary concerns to the events of his enigmatic life.
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Winner of the 1983 National Book Award, James R. Mellow's magisterial biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne places America's first great writer in the midst of the literary and cultural turmoil of the early republic. An unparalleled panorama of 19th-century American intellectual life, the biography convincingly traces Hawthorne's literary concerns to the events of his enigmatic life.
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Large octavo. xiv, 684pp., illustrated. Publisher's green cloth. A near fine copy in very good color pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is lightly rubbed and toned, with small chip and slight stain at tail of jacket.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Faint offsetting on front fly from a complimentary slip else about fine in modestly rubbed near fine dustwrapper. Publisher's complimentary slip laid in signed by editor Jonathan Galassi, "Love, Jonathan", the recipient not specified, but from the library of actress Marian Seldes.
