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During that time, he kept a series of journals, now called the American Notebooks, that became a vital taproot for his stories and novels. They also served as a laboratory where Hawthorne could experiment with fictional ideas and premises, letting his extraordinary imagination play with intriguing, sometimes wild possibilities. Some of his oddest, boldest, and most secretive writing—virtually unknown to readers until now—are the microfictions sprinkled throughout these notebooks, none more than a paragraph long, and many just a single sentence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed Hawthorne scholar Robert S. Levine has selected 200 of these intriguing short works, arranging them into thematic groups covering topics like the writing life, divided selves, and death and imagined afterlives. They reveal Hawthorne as a radical, strikingly modern literary experimenter, their extreme compression and dreamlike strangeness calling to mind Kafka’s parables and aphorisms. Gathered here in a single volume for the first time, they offer thrilling access to what Hawthorne called “the inmost Me behind its veil”—the creative essence of one of America’s greatest storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne\u003c\/b\u003e was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. In 1825 he graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his \u003ci\u003eTwice-Told Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter \u003c\/i\u003e(1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert S. 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