Buch, Englisch, 10 Seiten
The Complete Works in 13 volumes
Buch, Englisch, 10 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1316-7
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This edition contains all the works (fiction and essays and sketches) published by Hawthorne which it has proved possible to reproduce. It also includes the unfinished novels, and the selections from Hawthorne’s diaries and letters published by his widow after his death. All of the works have been newly typeset for this edition. Prof. Nick Lawrence (University of Warwick) has written a new critical introduction to Hawthorne’s oeuvre, including a chronology of the author’s life, contexts for reading his work, an overview of contemporary and subsequent reception, and a brief bibliography.
This edition contains all the works (fiction and essays and sketches) published by Hawthorne which it has proved possible to trace. It also includes the unfinished novels, and the selections from Hawthorne's diaries and letters published by his widow after his death.
The contents of the volumes are:
Volume 1 ( pp.): Introduction to the works by Prof. Nick Lawrence; Twice-Told Tales
Volume 2 (314 pp.): Mosses from an Old Manse
Volume 3 (356 pp.): The House of the Seven Gables; The Snow Image and other Twice-Told Tales
Volume 4 (373 pp.): A Wonder-book; Tanglewood Tales; Grandfather's Chair
Volume 5 (336 pp.): The Scarlet Letter; The Blithedale Romance
Volume 6 (307 pp.): The Marble Faun
Volume 7 (313 pp.): Our Old Home; extracts from English Note-books (first part)
Volume 8 (330 pp.): extracts from English Note-books (remainder)
Volume 9 (242 pp.): extracts from American Note-books
Volume 10 (302 pp.): extracts from French and Italian Note-books
Volume 11 (293 pp.): The Dolliver Romance; Fanshawe; Septimius Felton; The Ancestral Footstep
Volume 12 (262 pp.): tales and sketches not published elsewhere; Biographical Stories; Biographical Sketches; Alice Doane's Appeal; Chiefly about War Matters; Life of Franklin Pierce
Volume 13 (201 pp.): Dr. Grimshaw's Secret (as edited by Julian Hawthorne)
All of the works have been newly typeset for this edition. The basis of the texts is the Riverside edition (12 vols., London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), except for 'The Haunted Quack,' 'A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather,' and 'A Good Man's Miracle,' in vol. 12, which are based on the online Eldritch Press editions (ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/hawthorne.html), and Dr. Grimshaw's Secret, which is based on Julian Hawthorne's edition (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882).