The Ancestral Footstep

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Overview

Hawthorne struggled in vain to complete this fragment of a romance for more than twenty years. Based on an old English legend of a bloody footprint, it illuminates many of the themes Hawthorne touched on in his greatest works, as well as his methods of composition. It was published posthumously in 1883.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781986765534
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/30/2018
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning.

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