This Second Norton Critical Edition also includes:· Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person.· Key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writings· 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.
<b>A sweeping, epic story of love, betrayal and art, set across Europe from the 1920s Weimar Republic, to dark and glittering 1930s Berlin and then to twenty-first century America where the story ends. </b><br>