While working at the customhouse, surrounded by uninspiring men, the narrator finds himself unable to write. When a new president is elected, he loses his ...

Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter with a long introductory essay that generally functions as a preface but, more specifically, accomplishes four significant ...

In the second storey of the Custom–House there is a large room, in which the brick–work and naked rafters have never been covered with panelling and plaster.

''The Custom-House'' is a pseudo-autobiographical short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne to set the context and introduce the themes of The Scarlet Letter.

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5 июл. 2021 г. · Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter with a long introductory essay that generally functions as a preface but, more specifically, accomplishes ...

INTRODUCTORY TO "THE SCARLET LETTER". IT is a little remarkable, that- though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my ...

In a June 1850 letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville describes his struggle finishing Moby-Dick. With his usual humor, he offers to send a portion of the text ...

This chapter/intro is really long. I think it explains how the book was published. +. It is a little remarkable, that--though disinclined ...

22 февр. 2018 г. · It's not meant to comment on the action of the story; it's meant to tell how Hawthorne supposedly learned the story. Read it for enjoyment of ...