id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9184 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wikipedia .html text/html 8015 1094 76 Hawthorne's time in the Berkshires was very productive.[60] While there, he wrote The House of the Seven Gables (1851), which poet and critic James Russell Lowell said was better than The Scarlet Letter and called "the most valuable contribution to New England history that has been made."[61] He also wrote The Blithedale Romance (1852), his only work written in the first person.[30] He also published A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys in 1851, a collection of short stories retelling myths which he had been thinking about writing since 1846.[62] Nevertheless, poet Ellery Channing reported that Hawthorne "has suffered much living in this place".[63] The family enjoyed the scenery of the Berkshires, although Hawthorne did not enjoy the winters in their small house. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9184.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9184.txt