Contributor(s):Author: Nathaniel HawthorneEditor: Leland S. Person- Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person - Key passages from Hawthornes notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writing - Seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan, and John F. Birk - A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.