Every generation of high school freshmen scrawls "symbol" and "character development" in the margins of "The Scarlet Letter" and then forgets Nathaniel Hawthorne. We don't hold the author in our ...
HAWTHORNE HAUNTS ME. HE often comes to mind when I am wandering Boston’s streets. He seems always just around the corner. Once, Nathaniel Hawthorne was stopped in a Boston street by an old woman ...