The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection
Writing by admin on Wednesday, 19 of September , 2007 at 8:02 am
On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a tender and funny extract from Hawthorne’s notebooks, perhaps one of the earliest accounts in literature of a father caring for a young child.
Each day starts early and will be given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry picking and subduing armies of thistles. At one point Mr. Herman Melville comes over to enjoy a late night discussion of eternity over cigars.
With an introduction by Paul Auster, this delightful true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life — then and now. The collection also includes Hawthorne’s short stories “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.”
The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection
Category: Biographical, Classic Literature
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