Nathaniel and Julian Hawthorne (father and son authors)

45 books by, about, or edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian, including The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables.

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Complete Table of Contents:

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The American Notebooks
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Ancestral Footstep
• Biographical Studies (short)
• The Blithedale Romance
• A Book of Autographs (short)
• The Dolliver Romance
• Dr. Bullivant (short)
• Fanshawe
• Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (short)
• From Mosses from an Old Manse
• The Birthmark
• Young Goodman Brown
• Rappaccini's Daughter
• Mrs. Bullfrog
• The Celestial Railroad
• The Procession of Life
• Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
• Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
• Drowne's Wooden Image
• Roger Malvin's Burial
• The Artist of the Beautiful
• The Gorgon's Head (short)
• The Great Stone Face
• The Great Stone Face
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Great Carbuncle
• Sketches from Memory
• Grimshawe's Secret
• The House of the Seven Gables
• Journal of an African Cruiser by an officer of the US Navy, edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Marble Faun, volume 1
• The Marble Faun, volume 2
• The Miraculous Pitcher (short)
• Passages from the American Notebooks
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• An Old Woman's Tale (short)
• Other Tales and Sketches (short)
• Our Old Home: a Series of English Sketches
• The Paradise of Children (short)
• Passages from the English Notebooks (2 volumes)
• Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (2 volumes)
• The Scarlet Letter
• Septimus Felton
• Sketches and Studies
• Sketches from Memory (short)
• The Snow Image
• The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
• The Great Stone Face
• Ethan Brand
• The Canterbury Pilgrims
• The Devil in Manuscript
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Tanglewood Tales
• Three Golden Apples
• Time's Portraiture (short)
• True Stories of History and Biography (short)
• Twice-Told Tales
• The Gray Champion
• The Wedding Knell
• The Minister's Black Veil
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount
• The Gentle Boy
• Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
• Wakefield
• The Great Carbuncle
• David Swan
• The Hollow of the Three Hills
• Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
• Legends of the Province House
•   I. Howe's Masquerade
•   II. Edward Randolph's Portrait
•   III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle
•   IV. Old Esther Dudley
• The Ambitious Guest
• Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
• The Shaker Bridal
• Endicott and the Red Cross
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
• Grandfather and the Children and the Chair
• The Puritans and the Lady Arbela
• A Rainy Day
• Troublous Times
• The Government of New England
• The Pine-Tree Shillings
• The Quakers and the Indians
• The Indian Bible
• England and New England
• The Sunken Treasure
• What the Chair Had Known
• Extracts from the Life of John Eliot
• The Chair in the Firelight
• The Salem Witches
• The Old-Fashioned School
• Cotton Mather
• The Rejected Blessing
• Pomps and Vanities
• The Provincial Muster
• The Old French War and the Acadian Exiles
• The End of the War
• Thomas Hutchinson
• Account of the deportaion of the Acadians
• A New Year's Day
• The Stamp Act
• The Hutchinson Mob
• The British Troops in Boston
• The Boston Massacre
• A Collection of Portrait
• The Tea Party and Lexington
• The Siege of Boston
• The Tory's Farewell
• The War for Independence.
• Grandfather's Dream
• A Letter from Governor Hutchinson
• about Nathaniel Hawthorne and Brook Farm
• Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
• Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
• Hawthorne by Henry James
• Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
• Sketches form Concord by Frank Preston Stearns
• Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
• A Study of Hawthorne by George Lathrop
• My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears
• Nathaniel Hawtorne by George E. Woodbury

Julian Hawthorne (son of Nathaniel)

• Archibald Malmaison
• Confessions and Criticisms
• David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
• Hawthorne and His Circle
• The Subterranean Brotherhood

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Volume 2 of 6 -- French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin Mystery Stories
• HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).
•     The Necklace
•     The Man with the Pale Eyes
•     An Uncomfortable Bed
•     Ghosts
•     Fear
•     The Confession
•     The Horla
• PIERRE MILLE.
•     The Miracle of Zobeide
• VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM.
•     The Torture by Hope
• ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN
•     The Owl's Ear
•     The Invisible Eye
•     The Waters of Death
• HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850).
•     Melmoth Reconciled
•     The Conscript
• JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).
•     Zadig the Babylonian
• PEDRO DE ALARCON.
•     The Nail
• LUIGI CAPUANA (1839-00).
•     The Deposition
• LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).
•     The Adventure of the Three Robbers
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).
•     Letter to Sura

The Lock and Key Library: Detective and Magic Stories from Real Life, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Part 1 -- Detective Stories from Real Life
• Arthur Train
• A Flight into Texas
• P.H. Woodward
• Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
• An Erring Shepherd
• An Aspirant for Congress
• The Fortune of Seth Savage
• A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
• An Old Game Revived
• A Formidable Weapon
• Andrew Lang
• Saint-Germain the Deathless
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Legend
• The Valet's History
• The Valet's Master
• Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly
• Part 2 -- True Stories of Modern Magic
• M. Robert-Houdin
• A Conjurer's Confessions
• Self-Training
• "Second Sight"
• The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
• Facing the Arab's Pistol
• David P. Abbott
• Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
• A Doctor of the Occult
• How the Tricks Succeeded
• The Name of the Dead
• Mind Reading in Public
• Some Famous Exposures
• Hereward Carrington
• More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
• "Matter through Matter"
• Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
• Anonymous
• How Spirits Materialize

The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: American, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Julian Hawthorne
• Introduction: Riddle Stories
• F. Marion Crawford (born 1854)
• By the Waters of Paradise
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (born 1862)
• The Shadows on the Wall
• Melville D. Post (born 1871)
• The Corpus Delicti
• Ambrose Bierce (born 1842)
• An Heiress from Redhorse
• The Man and the Snake
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• The Oblong Box
• The Gold-Bug
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
• Adventure of the Black Fisherman
• Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
• Wieland's Madness
• FitzJames O'Brien (1828-1862)
• The Golden Ingot
• My Wife's Tempter
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
• The Minister's Black Veil
• Anonymous
• Horror: A True Tale

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English: Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Arthur Conan Doyle (born 1859)
• A Case of Identity
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red-Headed League
• Egerton Castle (born 1858)
• The Baron's Quarry
• Stanley J. Weyman (born 1855)
• The Fowl in the Pot
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• The Pavilion on the Links
• Wilkie Collins (1824-89)
• The Dream Woman
• Anonymous
• The Lost Duchess
• The Minor Canon
• The Pipe
• The Puzzle
• The Great Valdez Sapphire

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• The Haunted House
• No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man
• Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
• The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain
• The Incantation
• Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
• The Avenger
• Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824)
• Melmoth the Wanderer
• Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
• A Mystery with a Moral
• William Makepiece Thackeray (1811-1863)
• On Being Found Out
• The Notch on the Ax
• Anonymous
• Bourgonef
• The Closed Cabinet

The Lock and Key Library: Detective and Magic Stories from Real Life, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Part 1 -- Detective Stories from Real Life
• Arthur Train
• A Flight into Texas
• P.H. Woodward
• Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
• An Erring Shepherd
• An Aspirant for Congress
• The Fortune of Seth Savage
• A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
• An Old Game Revived
• A Formidable Weapon
• Andrew Lang
• Saint-Germain the Deathless
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Legend
• The Valet's History
• The Valet's Master
• Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly
• Part 2 -- True Stories of Modern Magic
• M. Robert-Houdin
• A Conjurer's Confessions
• Self-Training
• "Second Sight"
• The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
• Facing the Arab's Pistol
• David P. Abbott
• Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
• A Doctor of the Occult
• How the Tricks Succeeded
• The Name of the Dead
• Mind Reading in Public
• Some Famous Exposures
• Hereward Carrington
• More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
• "Matter through Matter"
• Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
• Anonymous
• How Spirits Materialize

The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: American, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Julian Hawthorne
• Introduction: Riddle Stories
• F. Marion Crawford (born 1854)
• By the Waters of Paradise
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (born 1862)
• The Shadows on the Wall
• Melville D. Post (born 1871)
• The Corpus Delicti
• Ambrose Bierce (born 1842)
• An Heiress from Redhorse
• The Man and the Snake
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• The Oblong Box
• The Gold-Bug
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
• Adventure of the Black Fisherman
• Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
• Wieland's Madness
• FitzJames O'Brien (1828-1862)
• The Golden Ingot
• My Wife's Tempter
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
• The Minister's Black Veil
• Anonymous
• Horror: A True Tale

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English: Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Arthur Conan Doyle (born 1859)
• A Case of Identity
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red-Headed League
• Egerton Castle (born 1858)
• The Baron's Quarry
• Stanley J. Weyman (born 1855)
• The Fowl in the Pot
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• The Pavilion on the Links
• Wilkie Collins (1824-89)
• The Dream Woman
• Anonymous
• The Lost Duchess
• The Minor Canon
• The Pipe
• The Puzzle
• The Great Valdez Sapphire

The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: French, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Victor Cherbuliez
• Count Kostia
• Paul Bourget
• Andre Cornelis
• Anonymous
• The Last of the Costellos
• Lady Betty's Indiscretion