Hawthorne (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494475277)

The twelve years that followed were not the happiest or most brilliant phase of Hawthorne's life; they strike me indeed as having had an altogether peculiar dreariness. They had their uses; they were the period of incubation of the admirable compositions which eventually brought him reputation and prosperity. But of their actual aridity the young man must have had a painful consciousness; he never lost the impression of it. Mr. Lathrop quotes a phrase to this effect from one of his letters, late in life. "I am disposed to thank God for the gloom and chill of my early life, in the hope that my share of adversity came then, when I bore it alone."

Author: Henry James
ISBN-10: 1494475278
ISBN-13: 9781494475277
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2013
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.37d