HAWTHORNE’S SHORT STORIES—(422 pp.)—Edited by Newton Arvin—Knopf ($3). It has been 80-odd years since Nathaniel Hawthorne died, but the mystery of his life has never been completely explained. One ...

NORTH ADAMS — In July 1838, Nathaniel Hawthorne struck out on the road, traveling west. His destination? North Adams. He arrived in North Adams — then the north village of Adams, as the communities ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel ...

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 ...

It’s not “The House of the Seven Gables,” the namesake of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel. But it’s selling for seven figures. A Salem home where the 19th century literary great once lived is on the ...

They went on to become politicians, captains of industry, prominent lawyers, clerics, and, in the case of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, giants of literature. Two centuries after ...

The Federal-style house on the corner of Botts Court and Chestnut Street in Salem is an architectural work of art that comes with an interesting history – at one point it was the home of renowned ...

A historic home up for sale in Salem is not to be scorned — but rather embraced — unlike the protagonist of the novel that was written by the author who used to live there. The house, located at 18 ...