| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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| DATES: | 1804–1864 |
| American writer whose novels, such as The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and short stories, including “Young Goodman Brown” (1835), are marked by elegant prose and moralistic and spiritual themes.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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