. A century of American literature and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . nd resumed his solitary, dreamy existence. For twelve years, from1825 to 1837, he went nowhere, he saw no one; he worked in his room by day,reading and writing; at twilight he wandered out along the shore, or through thedarkened streets of the town. Certainly this was no attractive life to most youngmen; but for Hawthorne it had its fascination and during this time he was storing I7-. 174 TSATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. his mind, forming his style, training his imagination and preparing for the splendidliterary fame
. A century of American literature and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . nd resumed his solitary, dreamy existence. For twelve years, from1825 to 1837, he went nowhere, he saw no one; he worked in his room by day,reading and writing; at twilight he wandered out along the shore, or through thedarkened streets of the town. Certainly this was no attractive life to most youngmen; but for Hawthorne it had its fascination and during this time he was storing I7-. 174 TSATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. his mind, forming his style, training his imagination and preparing for the splendidliterary fame of his later years. Hawthorne received his early education in Salem, partly at the school of JosephE. Worcester, the author of Worcesters Dictionary. He entered Bowdoin Col-lege in 1821. The poet, Longfellow, and John S. C. Abbott were his classmates;and Franklin Pierce—one class in advance of him—was his close fiiend. Hegraduated in 1825 without any special distinction. His first book, Fanshawe,a novel, was issued in 1826, but so poor was its success that he suppressed its fur-. THE OLD MANSE, CONCORD, MASS. Built for Emersons grandfather. In this house Ralph Waldo Emerson dwelt for ten years, and, here, inthe same room where Emerson wrote Nature and other philosophic essajs, Hawthorne prepared his Twice Told Tales, and Mosses from an Old Mause. He declares the four years (1842-1846) spent iathis house were the happiest of his life. ther publication. Subsequently he placed the manuscript of a collection of storiesin the hands of his publisher, but timidly withdrew and destroyed them. His firstpractical encouragement was received from Samuel G. Goodrich, who published fourstories in the Token, one of the annuals of that time, in 1881. Mr. Goodrichalso engaged Hawthorne as editor of the American Magazine of Useful and Enter-taining Knowledge, which position he occupied from 1836 to 1838. About thistime he also contributed some of his best stories to the New England Magazine
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