Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Cited by

• Debby Applegate (1)
  • IN: The Most Famous Man in America (2006) Non-Fiction, History, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby your worst may be inferred."
    FROM: The Scarlett Letter, (1850), Novel, US
• A. S. Byatt (2)
  • IN: Possession (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When a writer calls his work a Romance...
    FROM: Preface to The House of the Seven Gables, (1851), Book, US
• David Nicholls (1)
  • IN: Us (2014) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Thou only hast taught me that I have a heart -- thou only hast thrown a light deep downward and upward into my soul. Thou only hast revealed me to myself; for whom thy aid my best knowledge of myself would have been merely to know my own shadow -- to watch it flickering on the wall, and mistake its fantasies for my own real actions... Now, dearest, dost thou understand what thou hast done for me? And is it not a somewhat fearful thought, that a few slight circumstances might have prevented us from meeting?
    FROM: letter to Sophia Peabody, (1840), NULL, US
• Eve Marie Mont (1)
  • IN: A Touch of Scarlet (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... somewhere between the real world and fairyland, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet... Ghosts might enter here, without affrighting us.
    FROM: The Scarlett Letter, (1850), Novel, US
• David Lodge (1)
  • IN: Small World (1984) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When a writer calls his work a Romance...
    FROM: The House of the Seven Gables, (1851), Book, US
• Jeff Crook (1)
  • IN: The Covenant (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.
    FROM: The Scarlet Letter, (1850), Novel, US
• Michael Chabon (2)
  • IN: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wonderful escape!
    FROM: Wakefield, (1835), Short Story, US
  • IN: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Wonderful escape!
    FROM: "Wakefield", (1835), Short Story, US
• Patrick Flanery (1)
  • IN: Fallen Land (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
    FROM: The House of the Seven Gables, (1851), Novel, US
• Steve Hamilton (1)
  • IN: The Second Life of Nick Mason (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
    FROM: The Scarlet Letter, (1850), Novel, US
• Peter Straub (1)
  • IN: Ghost Story (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere.
    FROM: The Marble Faun, (1859), Novel, US
• Carlos Zanon (1)
  • IN: The Barcelona Brothers (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "I want my happiness!" at last he murmured, hoarsely and indistinctly, hardly shaping out the words. "Many, many years have I waited for it! It is late! It is late! I want my happiness!"
    FROM: The House of the Seven Gables, (1851), Novel, US
• Christopher Sorrentino (1)
  • IN: The Fugitives (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    FROM: The Scarlet Letter, (1850), Novel, US
• Hillary Jordan (1)
  • IN: When She Woke (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Truly, friend, and methinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles and sojourn in the wilderness," said the townsman, "to find yourself, at length, in a land where iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight of rulers and people."
    FROM: The Scarlet Letter, (1850), Novel, US
• Herman Melville (2)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago.
    FROM: Twice-Told Tales, (1837), Short story, US
• Jhumpa Lahiri (1)
  • IN: Unaccustomed Earth (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
    FROM: “The Customs House”, (1850), Essay, US
• M. J. Pullen (1)
  • IN: The Marriage Pact (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
    FROM: The Scarlet Letter, (1850), Book, US
• David Hewson (1)
  • IN: The Fallen Angel (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...while I was painting her I felt all the time as if she were trying to escape from my gaze. She knows that her sorrow is so strange and so immense, that she ought to be solitary forever, both for the world's sake and her own; and this is the reason we feel such a distance between Beatrice and ourselves, even when our eyes meet hers. It is infinitely heartbreaking to meet her glance, and to feel that nothing can be done to help or comfort her; neither does she ask help or comfort, knowing the hopelessness of her case better than we do. She is a fallen angel -- fallen, and yet sinless; and it is only this depth of sorrow, with its weight and darkness, that keeps her down upon earth, and brings her within our view even while it sets her beyond our reach.
    FROM: The Marble Faun, (1859), NULL, US
• Julia Keller (1)
  • IN: Summer of the Dead (2014) Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
    FROM: The House of the Seven Gables, (None), Novel, US
• Frederick Exley (1)
  • IN: A Fan's Notes (1968) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame; which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
    FROM: Fanshawe, (1828), Novel, US