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Hawthorne

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Haw·thorne  (hôthôrn)
A city of southern California, an industrial and residential suburb of Los Angeles. Population: 85,400.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864.
American writer whose novels, such as The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" (1835), are marked by elegant prose and moralistic and spiritual themes.
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Noun1.HawthorneHawthorne - United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)
Nathaniel Hawthorne


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The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit.
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
In a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, given in 'Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife,' his daily life is set forth.
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Some say that it was occupied by your own ancestor, William Hawthorne, first speaker of the House of Representatives.
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