Christmas Banquet

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Overview

Christmas Banquet was written in the year 1844 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789635224654
Publisher:	Booklassic
Publication date:	07/07/2015
Series:	Christmas Banquet
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	14
File size:	345 KB

About the Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne's ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving, William persecuted Quakers. William's son John Hathorne was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. (One theory is that having learned about this, the author added the "w" to his surname in his early twenties, shortly after graduating from college.) Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel Hathorne, Sr., was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever, when Hawthorne was only four years old, in Raymond, Maine...

Date of Birth:

July 4, 1804

Date of Death:

May 19, 1864

Place of Birth:

Salem, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Plymouth, New Hampshire

Education:

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1824