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The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection
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On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks, perhaps one of the earliest accounts in literature of a father caring for a young child.
Each day starts early and will be given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry picking and subduing armies of thistles. At one point Mr. Herman Melville comes over to enjoy a late night discussion of eternity over cigars.
With an introduction by Paul Auster, this delightful true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life -- then and now. The collection also includes Hawthorne's short stories "Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil" and "Rappaccini's Daughter."
Read by James Naughton.
Title: The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection
ISBN Number: 0060555688
ISBN-13: 9780060555689
Location Published: Caedmon: April 2003
Binding: Audio CD
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Categories: Audio Books
Seller ID: 329709
The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection