There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted the Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as part of the retribution. That, surely, were a shallow view of it. No; these revelations, unless I greatly error, are meant merely to promote the intellectual satisfaction of all intelligent beings, who will stand waiting, on that day, to see the dark problem of this life made plain. A knowledge of men's hearts will be needful to the completest solution of that problem. And I conceive, moreover, that the hearts holding such secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable.

Suffering from pain in his stomach Hawthorne insisted on a recuperative trip with his friend Franklin Pierce though his neighbor Bronson Alcott was concerned Hawthorne was too ill. Guests that came to speak that season included Emerson Thoreau Louis Agassiz and Theodore Parker. Selected works


Novels
Fanshawe (publiNathaniel Hawthorned anonymously 1828)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun: Or The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or The Romance of Monte Beni UK publication same year)
The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfiniNathaniel Hawthorned)
Septimius Felton; or the Elixir of Life (PubliNathaniel Hawthorned in the Atlantic Monthly 1872)
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance (unfiniNathaniel Hawthorned) with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne (1882)


Short story collections
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories


Selected short stories
"Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832)
"My Kinsman Major Molineux" (1832)
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
"The Gray Champion" (1835)
"The White Old Maid" (1835)
"Wakefield" (1835)
"The Ambitious Guest" (1835)
"The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)
"The Man of Adamant" (1837)
"The Maypole of Merry Mount" (1837)
"The Great Carbuncle" (1837)
"Dr.

The Scarlet Letter was publiNathaniel Hawthorned in 1850 followed by a succession of other novels. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821 was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824 and graduated in 1825.