During his years as consul in England, Hawthorne planned a romance about Middleton, an American who returns to the land of his ancestors and seeks the old manor where a legendary bloody footstep marks the threshold. These are his working drafts and outlines, breaking off and restarting as he tested the story, later abandoned for Septimius Felton.
A rare look into Hawthorne’s workshop for readers of his novels and of American writers abroad. Download the free EPUB.