Doctor Grimshawe's Secret (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Overview

Hawthorne’s son Julian edited and published his father’s last, unfinished novel—“undress rehearsals”—in 1882. A story involving the narrator, an archetypal mad scientist, a lovely young woman, and a sexy maid creates a real science-fiction type romance. A New England setting and a Gothic theme give the novel a feeling of completeness, despite its lack of a true end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411441002
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/08/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	366 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works were notable for their strong moral focus, hatred of hypocrisy, and a use of symbolism so lush and romantic as to almost constitute in itself a counter-argument to any morality but art for art's sake. His best known work is The Scarlet Letter (1850).

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