Nathaniel Hawthorne’s son recalls how, while studying engineering in Dresden in 1869, he drifted into literature almost by accident. The essays that follow take up novels and agnosticism, Americanism in fiction, literature for children, the moral aim in fiction and a reply to W. H. Mallock.
Candid essays on the craft and purpose of fiction from a writer raised in the shadow of a famous father. Download the free EPUB.