The worldwide revival of interest in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne has made the inclusion of this volume in the Modern Library Giant series imperative. To have available all the novels from his pen—Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun—as well as a representative selection of thirty-seven tales in a single volume, is an accomplishment that is only possible in the Giant format. The student and general reader need no longer rely on rare and scattered volumes for these works. They are here presented, with a brilliant biographical and critical introduction by Norman Holmes Pearson of Yale University, in a setting worthy of so much treasure.