13 Volume Set: The COMPLETE WORKS of NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop- Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York- 1890-1892- Brown cloth HARDCOVERS, VERY GOOD; light wear, including hint of damp staining just to a couple free pages on a couple volumes, but generally very clean, bright and solid inside and out. ILLUSTRATED with ENGRAVINGS. GOLD GILT titles on brown leather spine labels on spine. SET of 13. A beautiful collection of thirteen volumes of the works of American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Complete in thirteen volumes. Riverside Edition. ILLUSTRATED with ENGRAVINGS by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. With an ILLUSTRATED frontispiece to each volume; complete with tissue guard. The complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer whose works often focus on history, morality, and religion. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, where he was raised, and many works feature moral metaphors with an anti-Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement, or Dark Romanticism. With an introduction from George Parsons Lathrop, an American poet, novelist, and newspaper editor known for pioneering copyright laws in the United States. Volume XIII edited by Julian Hawthorne, an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. This set contains: Volume I - Twice-Told Tales. Volume II - Mosses from An Old Manse. Volume III - The House of the Seven Gables & The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales. Volume IV - A Wonder-Books, Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's Chair. Volume V - The Scarlet Letter & The Blithedale Romance. Volume VI - The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni. Volume VII - Our Old Home, and English Notebooks. Volume I. Volume VIII - Our Old Home, and English Notebooks. Volume II. Volume IX - Passages from the American Notebooks. Volume X - Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks. Volume XI - The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimus Felton. Volume XII - Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers. Volume XIII - Doctor Grimshaw's Secret: A Romance. Beautiful original full cloth bindings. Lovely decorative set, ideal for the lover of classic literature and COLLECTOR. 

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