Christmas Banquet

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Overview

This is an anti-Christmas tale written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, originally subtitled: "An allegory of the human heart". "A Christmas banquet" contrasts with "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, but it serves as a reminder that holidays can be a time of human suffering and loneliness, as well as good tidings as joy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781979912068
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/20/2017
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne's ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving, William persecuted Quakers. William's son John Hathorne was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. (One theory is that having learned about this, the author added the "w" to his surname in his early twenties, shortly after graduating from college.) Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel Hathorne, Sr., was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever, when Hawthorne was only four years old, in Raymond, Maine...

Date of Birth:

July 4, 1804

Date of Death:

May 19, 1864

Place of Birth:

Salem, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Plymouth, New Hampshire

Education:

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1824