noun
United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)
• Syn: ↑Hawthorne
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(1804–64) a US writer of novels and short stories. He was born in Salem, ↑Massachusetts, and set his novels in ↑New England during the time of the Puritans. The most famous are ↑Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and his best-known collections of short stories are the two volumes of Twice-Told Tales (1837 and 1842). He lived in Europe for seven years and was US consul in Liverpool in 1853.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.