Stearns begins with the Hathornes of colonial Salem and follows Nathaniel through his boyhood, Bowdoin College, his long solitary apprenticeship, his courtship of Sophia Peabody, the Custom House years, Brook Farm and life at the Old Manse in Concord, and on to the great romances and his consulship abroad, weighing the work as he goes.
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