Nathaniel Hawthorne’s New Hampshire Stories While Nathaniel Hawthorne neither lived nor was born in New Hampshire, like many New Englanders, he did have close connections to the Granite State. Most notably, Hawthorne w

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• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• White Mountains
• Plymouth
• New Hampshire
• Carbuncle
• New England
• The Ambitious Guest
• Hawthorne
• Short stories
• Literature
• The Great Carbuncle
• Physical geography

THE AMBITIOUS GUEST (Follow-up Questions and Other Stories) O ne September night a family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the

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