...by the Author Edited by STEVEN JAMES BARTLETT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Salem, Oregon AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS P. O. Box 6141 Salem, Oregon 97... ...mehow out of focus; yet it seems I hear the flute and lyre of the ceramic players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor li... ...to realize how clever those ancient artists were. F was interested in the avalanches, and asked me the best season for a climb. He will ask his fath... ...nspired by my visits to the sea, by my trips to the mountains where I saw avalanches. Sound...the crash of falling boulders, the crash of a raging o... ...luck? When you write a play, isn’t it luck, lucky weather, luck with your players, luck with your attendance, the right kind of royalty attending at... ...t my own defeat, a shrew SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 381 beside a shrew, players nodding at my marital bewilderment, I, the drunkard drunk on illus... ...that I was false of heart...the poison left her stunned, as if beneath an avalanche of men. Mad slanderers, no, Ann deserved the slander but what co... ... the wilderness; I wish to write about my mother, about my village of New Salem, my home in Springfield with its maple trees. I see the sunlight in ... ...ficulty in acquiring legal land titles. I became a sort of clerk in New Salem; I served as postmaster; then came the Black Hawk War; I was elected...

...glasses, and that a nuclear bomb had gone off somewhere nearby Ithaca--maybe Salem for the strangers on the street, bewildered and whispering to thems... ...ctly make that correlation. "Come on now. Let's not panic. It's been hot in Salem with no wind. Maybe the radiation will just stay there. What lit... ... too boring. She watched him work against the odds of crumbling sand and an avalanche of shoddy construction, sculpting out some edifice that he attr... ...f smiles and chatter. Her chatter was a repetition of their ideas about the players and the plays. Since she hadn't really observed a thing and the... ...t corridors in what was once the parched earth. It did not occur to her that avalanche and drowning were the natural order imposed by merciless creati... ...g in a city where differences were as inconspicuous as rolling pebbles in an avalanche; the random subway passengers who sometimes, after buying their... ...e Grand Palace. Then, his wistful stare was directed toward untainted soccer players engaged, as boys, in simple pleasures which he would never be abl...

...he began “The House of the Seven Gables.” Meanwhile, he had re- moved from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massa- chusetts, where he occupied wit... ...lled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magis- trate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the ... ...to the following effect. Philip En- glish, a character well-known in early Salem annals, was among those who suffered from John Hathorne’s magiste- ri... ...onvince man- kind—or, indeed, any one man—of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate, on the heads of an unfortunat... ...gths; for, faster than 213 Hawthorne the nimble ball could fly, the merry players fled unconsciously along, leaving the trail of their mirth afar beh...

...r during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl....

...erica the bitterness against England has amounted almost to a passion. The players—those chroniclers of the time—have had no hits so sure as those whi... ... to inspire disgust by the enormity of their ugliness, nor are they called Salem, Ebenezer, and Sion, nor do the 320 North America V ol. 1 ministers ... ...endure to be ruined, to be torn from their friends, to be overwhelmed with avalanches of misfor- tune, better than they can endure to be dull. Baltimo...