... widely known story he ever wrote. The last fourteen years of Hawthorne's life were very different from the struggle to be recognized that his entire life had been about. Within a year Hawthorne finished and published another novel named The House of Seven Gables; a story about a Pyncheon family of Salem and Maule's curse. A year later he published The Blithedale Romance, a satire of Brook Farm. After seven years in Europe, he tried an even ... more ambitious novel, The Marble Faun. Sadly, none of these novels reached the acclaim that The Scarlet Letter had with critics. (Grolier Electro...

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