The novelist visits Washington in wartime—and is then censored by The Atlantic.
"I have been measuring coal all day on board of a black little British schooner, in a dismal dock at the north-end of the city"
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
Personal musings from the renowned American author
The second section of an unfinished novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The opening section of an unfinished novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Among this people … dinner has a kind of sanctity quite independent of the dishes that may be set upon the table.”
“How difficult to believe that anything so precious as a germ of immortal growth can have been buried under this dirt-heap, plunged into this cesspool of misery and vice!”
“It seems … as if the heart of London had been cleft open for the mere purpose of showing how rotten and drearily mean it had become.”
“Greenwich … is beautiful, a spot where the art of man has conspired with Nature, as if he and the great mother had taken counsel together how to make a pleasant scene.”