Hawthorne,Nathaniel

Hawthorne,Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. 1804-1864.
American writer whose novels, such as The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and short stories, including “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), are marked by elegant prose and moralistic and spiritual themes.

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  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel — born July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S. died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H. U.S. novelist and short story writer. Descended from Puritans, he was imbued with a deep moral earnestness. After producing several unexceptional works, he wrote some of his… …   Universalium

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel — (1804– 64)    Novelist.    Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He was a classmate of the poet Longfellow at Bowdoin College and, after a short period of working in a Boston customs house, he dedicated the rest of his life to his writing.… …   Who’s Who in Christianity

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel —    (1804–1864).    American novelist and short story writer. Hawthorne was a central figure in early Gothic literature in America and a major influence on HPL, who at the age of six first developed a fascination with Graeco Roman mythology by… …   An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel — ► (1804 64) Escritor estadounidense. Sus novelas y cuentos se caracterizan por la minuciosidad del análisis psicológico. Sus obras principales son: Cuentos referidos dos veces (1837), La casa de los siete aleros (1851) y El fauno de mármol (1860) …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL —    American novelist, born at Salem, Massachusetts; his early ambition was to be a literary man, and Twice told Tales was the first production by which he won distinction, after the publication of which he spent some months at BROOK FARM (q.v.),… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel —  (1804–1864) American writer. (But hawthorn for the tree or shrub.) …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel — (1804 1864)    Novelist, b. at Salem, Massachusetts, s.. of a sea captain, who d. in 1808, after which his mother led the life of a recluse. An accident when at play conduced to an early taste for reading, and from boyhood he cherished literary… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel —    см. Готорн, Натаниел …   Писатели США. Краткие творческие биографии

  • Hawthorne — Hawthorne, Nathaniel …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne — Retrato realizado en la década de 1860. Nacimiento 4 de julio de 1804 Salem …   Wikipedia Español

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