The Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788772785

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) was an acclaimed American novelist. He was born Nathaniel Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts, though he added a w to his name to distance himself from his family's involvement in the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1690s. The trials, along with Puritan culture in general, greatly influenced his writings. He is best remembered for his hallmark novels The House of Seven Gables, and The Scarlet Letter.

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The Complete Works of

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

VOLUME 6 OF 34

The Dolliver Romance

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2016

Version 3

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‘The Dolliver Romance’

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parts Edition (in 34 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parts Edition

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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

IN 34 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Fanshawe

2, The Scarlet Letter

3, The House of the Seven Gables

4, The Blithedale Romance

5, The Marble Faun

6, The Dolliver Romance

7, Septimius Felton

8, Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

9, The Ancestral Footstep

The Short Story Collections

10, Twice-Told Tales

11, The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair

12, Mosses from an Old Manse

13, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales

14, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

15, Tanglewood Tales

16, The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces

17, Biographical Studies

18, Miscellaneous Short Stories

The Non-Fiction

19, Biographical Stories for Children

20, The Life of Franklin Pierce

21, Our Old Home

22, Chiefly About War Matters

23, Miscellaneous Pieces

Notebooks and Letters

24, Passages from the American Note-Books

25, Passages from the English Note-Books

26, Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books

27, Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Criticism

28, The Criticism

The Biographies

29, The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns

30, Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne

31, Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

32, Nathaniel Hawthorne by George E. Woodberry

33, A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

34, Brief Biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne by George William Curtis

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The Dolliver Romance

This unfinished novel was first published in 1864.  The manuscript was laid upon Hawthorne’s coffin during his funeral at Concord, but was not buried with him, being preserved in the Concord Public Library. The first chapter was published in the Atlantic as an isolated portion, soon after the author’s death and subsequently the second chapter, which he had been unable to revise, appeared in the same periodical.

Hawthorne, close to the time of his death

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.

A SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.

ANOTHER SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE

ANOTHER FRAGMENT OF THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.

In The Dolliver Romance, only three chapters of which the author lived to complete, we get an intimation as to what would have been the ultimate form given to that romance founded on the Elixir of Life, for which Septimius Felton was the preliminary study. Having abandoned this study, and apparently forsaken the whole scheme in 1862, Hawthorne was moved to renew his meditation upon it in the following year; and as the plan of the romance had now seemingly developed to his satisfaction, he listened to the publisher’s proposal that it should begin its course as a serial story in the Atlantic Monthly for January, 1864 — the first instance in which he had attempted such a mode of publication.

But the change from England to Massachusetts had been marked by, and had perhaps in part caused, a decline in his health. Illness in his family, the depressing and harrowing effect of the Civil War upon his sensibilities, and anxiety with regard to pecuniary affairs, all combined to make still further inroads upon his vitality; and so early as the autumn of 1862 Mrs. Hawthorne noted in her private diary that her husband was looking miserably ill. At no time since boyhood had he suffered any serious sickness, and his strong constitution enabled him to rally from this first attack; but the gradual decline continued. After sending forth Our Old Home, he had little strength for any employment more arduous than reading, or than walking his accustomed path among the