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Volume 1 The contemporary context: the early work - "Fanshawe" (1928),tales included in "The Token" (1831-1837), "Twice-told tales" (1837) andother writng, "The Gentle Boy", "A Thrice Told Tale" (1839), "Grandfather'sChair: A History for Youth" (1841), "Liberty Tree: With the Last Words ofGrandfathers Chair" (1841), "Biographical Stories for Children" (1842),"Twice-told Tales" (1842), "Mosses from an Old Manse" (1846); The 1840sbuilding and consolidating a reputation - Hawthorne as a national author;reviews - "The Scarlet Letter" to "The Marble Faun", "The Scarlet Letter: ARomance " (1850), "True Stories from History and Biography" (1850, dated1851), "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851), "Twice-told Tales" (1851), "AWonder Book for Girls and Boys" (1852) and "The Snow Image and otherTwice-told Tales" (1852), "The Blithedale Romance" (1852), "Life of FranklinPierce" (1852), "Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys" (1853), "The MarbleFaun: or The Romance of Monte Beni" (1860)/ "Transformation: or, The Romanceof Monte Beni: (British edition); British and American assessments ofHawthorne - 1851-60. Volume 2 Hawthorne - "Creating a Classis" 1860-1900: thelater works - "Our Old Home: a Series of English Sketches" (1863); fourobituaries; posthumous publications - "Pansie" (1864) and "Passages from theAmerican Notevooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1868), "Passages from the EnglishNotebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1870), "Passages from the French andItalian Notebook of Nathaniel Hawthorne" (London 1871, Boston, 1872),"Septimus Felton" (1872), "Doctor Grimshawe's Secret" (1883); biographical;assessments - 1868-1900; reviews and reflections; canonization; Hawthorne inthe 1890s. Volume 3 The critical response: assessment of individual workssince 1900; the short stories - "Mosses from the Old Manse". "The ScarletLetter" (1850), "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851), "The BlithedaleRomance" (1852), "The Marble Faun: or The Romance of Monte Beni" (1860)"Transformation or, The Romance of Monte Beni" (British edition); passagesfrom "The English Notebooks" (1870), "Doctor Grimshawe's Secret" (1833).Volume 4 The critical response: general assesments since 1900; Hawthorne'sreputation; Hawthorne and romance; Hawthorne and feminism; Hawthorne andHenry James; Hawthorne and allegory and symbolism; Hawthorne - art andbelief; general assesments.