The Portable Hawthorne Author:Edited by Malcolm Cowley Thirteen Stories — Self-contained selections from 3 other novels. Passages from his NOTE BOOKS which contain the germs of his stories...plus unexpurgated sections from his original JOURNALS and a biographical arrangement of his LETTERS, with an important new critical evaluation by the editor, MALCOLM COWLEY. — Mr. Cowley's brilliant and original e... more »ditorial approach, which distinguished his two earlier Portables, is again evident in this volume. Besides The Scarlet Letter, which is here complete, there are some of Hawthorne's best stories, and selections from The House of the Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, "The Dolliver Romance," and the Notebooks. Letters, arranged to tell the story of his later life, are included. Two of these, to his wife, are unavailable elsewhere in unexpurgated form. There are passages from his journals which have previously appeared only in volumes now out of print. There emerges from these pages a fresh new feeling for the mind and work of one of America's great writers.« less