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Our Old Home

Our Old Home

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1419139576
ISBN13: 9781419139574
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.51 Width: 7.92 Depth: 8.74
Language: English
Our Old Home is a collection of essays written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer. The book is a travelogue that chronicles his experiences during his three-year stay in England as the American consul in Liverpool. Hawthorne's essays are a reflection of his observations and impressions of English society, culture, and history. He writes about his visits to various landmarks and historic sites, such as the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, and Stratford-upon-Avon. He also shares his encounters with notable figures, including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.The book is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of English life. Hawthorne writes about the English countryside, the English church, the English aristocracy, and the English people. He also discusses the differences between American and English culture and reflects on his own experiences as an American living in England.Our Old Home is a beautifully written and insightful book that provides a unique perspective on nineteenth-century England. It is a must-read for anyone interested in English history, culture, and literature.From Leamington to Stratford-on-Avon the distance is eight or nine miles, over a road that seemed to me most beautiful. Not that I can recall any memorable peculiarities; for the country, most of the way, is a succession of the gentlest swells and subsidences, affording wide and far glimpses of champaign scenery here and there, and sinking almost to a dead level as we draw near Stratford. Any landscape in New England, even the tamest, has a more striking outline, and besides would have its blue eyes open in those lakelets that we encounter almost from mile to mile at home, but of which the Old Country is utterly destituteThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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