Five Novels (Library of Essential Writers)

Nathaniel Hawthorne was the quintessential New England writer and a literary chronicler of the early American experience. This volume brings together the five novels that he completed in his lifetime - Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun - all rich with symbolism and allegory that bring the historical past vividly to life.