Looking for Nathaniel Hawthorne books? Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the great-great-grandson of John Hathorne, a judge at the Salem witch trials.
He added a "w" to his name to distance himself from that past. Then he spent his career writing about it, turning Puritan New England into some of the darkest fiction in American literature.
Here you have 21 of his books: novels, short stories, Greek myths for children and private notebooks. The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and Young Goodman Brown are all free to read online or download as PDF.
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Novels
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novels
Hawthorne called his novels romances, and sin, guilt and hidden secrets drive every plot. Start with The Scarlet Letter and Hester Prynne, then try The Blithedale Romance, drawn from his months at Brook Farm, or Fanshawe, the first novel he tried to erase.
Hester Prynne wears a scarlet A on her chest in Puritan Boston while the father of her child keeps his secret from the pulpit. Hawthorne's masterpiece on sin, shame and hypocrisy, in a clean Global Grey edition.
A wizard's dying curse follows the Pyncheon family for two centuries inside their dark Salem mansion. Hawthorne's own favorite among his novels, about inherited guilt and a house that will not forget.
A poet joins a utopian farm in Massachusetts and gets caught between a passionate feminist, a fragile seamstress and a reformer who will use anyone. Drawn from Hawthorne's own months at Brook Farm.
Three artists in Rome and a young Italian who looks just like a statue of a faun share a crime that changes all of them. Hawthorne's last finished novel, both volumes in one file.
A pale scholar, a college president's ward and a sinister stranger in a small New England college town. Hawthorne's first novel, published anonymously in 1828 and later hunted down and burned by its own author.
A young man in Concord kills a British officer on the first day of the Revolution and finds on the body a recipe for eternal life. An unfinished late romance, published after Hawthorne's death.
Young Goodman Brown, The Minister's Black Veil and The Birthmark are the Hawthorne tales classrooms still read every fall. You also get his three full collections, starting with Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse.
The collection that made Hawthorne's name, with The Minister's Black Veil, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Wakefield and the Legends of the Province House. Both series in one volume.
Written at the Concord house where Emerson once lived, this collection holds Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, Rappaccini's Daughter and Earth's Holocaust. The book that made Melville call Hawthorne a genius.
His third and last collection, with The Great Stone Face, Ethan Brand and My Kinsman, Major Molineux. It opens with a gentle tale about two children whose snow girl comes to life.
A young Puritan leaves his wife Faith for one night to walk into the forest, where he finds his whole village at a witches' meeting. Hawthorne's most read story, short enough for a single sitting.
One Sunday, Reverend Hooper climbs into the pulpit with a black veil over his face and never takes it off again. A short parable about secret sin that still unsettles readers.
A brilliant scientist cannot stand the tiny red mark on his beautiful wife's cheek and sets out to remove it. A dark tale about the obsession with perfection.
A student in Padua falls for the daughter of a scientist who raised her among poisonous plants until her touch became deadly. Hawthorne's tale asks what a scientist is willing to sacrifice for an experiment.
A witch brings her pumpkin-headed scarecrow to life and sends him into town dressed as a gentleman. Half fable, half horror, and one of the last tales Hawthorne wrote.
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales retell Greek myths like King Midas, Pandora's box and Theseus and the Minotaur, perfect for reading aloud. Next to them are two books of true stories, from early Massachusetts history to the childhood of Isaac Newton.
King Midas and the golden touch, Pandora's box, Perseus and the Gorgon: six Greek myths told by a student to a group of children. With Walter Crane's illustrations.
The sequel to A Wonder Book, with Theseus and the Minotaur, Jason and the Golden Fleece and Proserpina in the underworld. This edition keeps the full-color illustrations of the original.
An old armchair passes from hand to hand through two centuries of Massachusetts history, from the Puritans to the Revolution. A grandfather tells its story to his grandchildren, one owner at a time.
Six true stories about the childhoods of Benjamin West, Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Franklin and Queen Christina. A father tells them to his son during a long illness.
Want to meet the writer behind The Scarlet Letter? His private notebooks, his essays on England and his love letters to Sophia Peabody show where his stories began.
Hawthorne spent four years as American consul in Liverpool, and these essays are what he saw: English villages, Stratford, Oxford and the London slums. Sharp, funny and sometimes unfair to his hosts.
Hawthorne's private journals from 1835 to 1853, full of sketches, overheard stories and seeds of future tales. Both volumes, edited by his wife Sophia, in one file.
The letters Hawthorne wrote to Sophia Peabody during their secret engagement and the first years of marriage, from 1839 to 1863. A tender side of the writer that his novels never show.
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