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Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa by Nathaniel. Hawthorne (2003, Hardcover)

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Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101590170423

ISBN-139781590170427

eBay Product ID (ePID)2354667

Product Key Features

Book TitleTwenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPersonal Memoirs, American / General

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorNathaniel. Hawthorne

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length7.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-006574

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.3

SynopsisOn July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks. "At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars. With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life--then and now., This true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life-then and now., On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks. "At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars. With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family lifethen and now.

LC Classification NumberPS1881.A3 2003