Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
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