Salem is My Dwelling Place A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
This copy of Salem is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Edwin Haviland Miller is a HB with a DJ. It was published by University of Iowa Press in 1991. Condition: Very Good/Like New--book looks new except for a couple of black vertical lines on the back cover (this looks like it was part of the manufacturing process); DJ like new. This book belonged to my late husband: purchased new, never read. 596 pages.
Psychologically probing (but free of all jargon), Miller's elegantly written study gives us a fresh, sympathetic picture of an immensely complex, repressed man. Hawthorne's fiction (especially the four completed novels) is tantalizingly veiled autobiography in which he reveals, among other things, his love-hate relationship with his stern Salem ancestors and his abiding sense of having been early abandoned by his father, who died at sea. Recognizing that Hawthorne's fiction revolves around family, Miller explores (with brilliant results) what lay below the surface of Hawthorne's apparently idyllic relationship with his wife Sophia, his mother, and his contemporary, Melville. This is a masterful work, wholly satisfying.
- Charles C. Nash, Cottey Coll., Nevada, Mo.
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