Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

This is the annotated edition including a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, as well as an introductory to the book written by George Parsons Lathrop. In Hawthorne's "French and Italian Note-Books" the daily experience of his Italian sojourn, and the mute life of painting and sculpture as it stood to be reviewed by his eye, are set down precisely as they presented themselves to him at the time. They end the series of Hawthorne's journals; since, on his return to America, the Civil War so absorbed his thoughts that he was unable to continue memoranda of this kind.

This volume contains a collection of passages taken from Nathaniel Hawthorne's French and Italian note-books. These interesting and entertaining notes chronicle the authors various journeys through these countries and other parts of Europe, and will be of special interest to lovers of masterful travel writing. The chapters of this book include: "France", "Marseilles", "Hotel de Provence et des Ambassadeurs", "The Mediterranean Sea", "Rome", "To Florence", "Incisa", "Villa Montanto. Monte Beni", "France", "Avignon", "Geneva", etcetera. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) was an American novelist and writer of short stories. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.