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9780140390575
With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essential American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly--often wickedly--unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination.Hawthorne, Nathaniel is the author of 'Selected Tales and Sketches', published 1987 under ISBN 9780140390575 and ISBN 014039057X.
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