HAWTHORNE’S SHORT STORIES—(422 pp.)—Edited by Newton Arvin—Knopf ($3). It has been 80-odd years since Nathaniel Hawthorne died, but the mystery of his life has never been completely explained. One ...
One of the great American writers of the 19th century never fully believed in his profession. For Nathaniel Hawthorne, writing was "a source of shame as much as pleasure and a necessity he could ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne died in 1864, in the midst of the Civil War, a social revolution which he profoundly distrusted; he was traveling in New Hampshire for his health with his old college friend ...
When Nathaniel Hawthorne moved into Hawthorne Cottage in Lenox in 1850, Herman Melville was writing "Moby-Dick" just up the road. While Hawthorne wrote and published "The House of Seven Gables," the ...
: being the member of a pair of similarly spelled vowel or vowel-containing sounds that is descended from a vowel that was short in duration but is no longer so and that does not necessarily have duration as its chief distinguishing feature
SHORT definition: 1. small in length, distance, or height: 2. used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of…. Learn more.
Define short. short synonyms, short pronunciation, short translation, English dictionary definition of short. adj. short er , short est 1. Having little length; not long. 2. Having little height; not tall. 3. Extending or traveling not far or not far enough: a short...
Short, brief are opposed to long, and indicate slight extent or duration. Short may imply duration but is also applied to physical distance and certain purely spatial relations: a short journey.Brief refers esp. to duration of time: brief intervals.