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Hawthorne’s notebooks expose the strange workings of his mind
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s private notebooks offer a rare view of how his imagination worked, revealing the macabre ideas he explored when free from fears of being judged unconventional, depressed or mad by the people around him.
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