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A son of Salem The Old Manse in Concord The Scarlet Letter
Explore Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story “Dr. Heidegger's Experiment” with Clifton Fadiman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Follow a dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic American short story “Dr. Heidegger's Experiment”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Media

American writer

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Explore Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story “Dr. Heidegger's Experiment” with Clifton Fadiman
Learn about Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story “Dr. Heidegger's Experiment” by listening...
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Follow a dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic American short story “Dr. Heidegger's Experiment”
“Dr. Heidegger's Experiment” deals with two of Hawthorne's favourite themes: the...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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A son of Salem
Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestors in Salem, Massachusetts, were Puritans named Hathorne....
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-DIG-cwpbh-03440)
The Old Manse in Concord
The Old Manse was Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's home in Concord, Massachusetts,...
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The Scarlet Letter
Demi Moore in a 1995 film adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
Copyright © 1995 Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne, photograph by Mathew Brady.
The Granger Collection, New York
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