Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne and his"The House of the Seven Gables"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

and his

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthornes life

1804 - 1864

        Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on the July 4th, 1804 in Salem, a puritan town, where his family had lived for generations. His father died only quadruplet years afterwards. From the concussion of his death Mrs. Hawthorne (as the name was originally spelled, the W was inserted by three-year-old Nathaniel) never recovered. To the end of her life she lived in seclusion, rarely go away her room. It is not surprising that Nathaniel developed to be shy, sensitive and lonely.

        For four years Nathaniel studied at the Bowdoin College, where his habits of seclusion were mostly broken. whence he returned to Salem and his peculiar habits occurred again, he closed himself in the house for ten years. During the day he read and wrote at home, he was going out in the night. He wrote more and burnt much of what he had written. From 1830 he published on the spur of the moment stories in magazines. The first collection of his tales, Twice told Tales, appeared in 1837.

         save his writings didnt earn him enough and he had to work for living. He worked as a weigher in the Boston customhouse; he also spent a year in the bear out Farm, a transcendentalist experiment.

        In 1842 he married and moved to Concord, where he met many intellectuals. Here they lived happily for four years, Hawthorne wrote busily, because his work was recognise and appreciated more and more widely as its intensity level increased. The stories and sketches he wrote during this time were published in 1846, under the human activity Mosses from an Old Manse.

        His income was still low, so he started to work as a Surveyor of the Custom House in Salem, and lived there for quin years. He wrote an...

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