Hawthorne and His Circle (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Nathaniel Hawthornes circle included Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Henry James, Robert Browning, Julia Ward Howe, and President Franklin Pierce. This lively sons-eye-view, published in 1884, portrays the up-and-down life, work, and travels of a literary genius and his friends and associates in a time of intellectual ferment and social upheaval.