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    Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
    Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
    Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
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    Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne was born is Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. His father died when he was four years old. His first novel, Fanshawe, was published anonymously at his own expense in 1828. He later disowned the novel and burned the remaining copies. For the next twenty years he made his living as a writer of tales and children's stories. He assured his reputation with the publication of The Scarlet Letter in 1850 and The House of the Seven Gables the following year. In 1853 he was appointed consul in Liverpool, England, where he lived for four years. He died in 1864.

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      Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales") - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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      Title: Beneath an Umbrella (From Twice Told Tales)

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      TWICE TOLD TALES

      NIGHT SKETCHES

      BENEATH AN UMBRELLA

      By Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one, which is mistily presented through the windows. I have experienced, that fancy is then most successful in imparting distinct shapes and vivid colors to the objects which the author has spread upon his page, and that his words become magic spells to summon up a thousand varied pictures. Strange landscapes glimmer through the familiar walls of the room, and outlandish figures thrust themselves almost within the sacred precincts of the hearth. Small as my chamber is, it has space enough to contain the ocean-like circumference of an Arabian desert, its parched sands tracked by the long line of a caravan, with the camels patiently journeying through the heavy

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