Grandfather's Chair [first volume] (1841)

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Nathaniel Hawthorne	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Grandfather's Chair [first volume]

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Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth

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1841

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In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our early annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own accord.

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This is LT work is Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth, first published in 1841. It is the first of Hawthorne's three books of Grandfather's stories. It was subsequently published with the other two volumes (Famous Old People (1842) and Liberty Tree (1842) under various titles, including The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair; or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1803; True Stories from New England History, 1620-1803: Grandfather's Chair Complete in Three Parts; and Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth (1884). If you have the later-published version containing all three books, you can edit the title of your book to include the notation [all three parts]. It can then be combined with the separate LT work that includes the three books. Please do not combine this LT work with the other two Grandfather's Chair volumes or any work containing all three volumes.

The three Grandfather's Chair books were also published with a fourth Hawthorne work, Biographical Stories for Children (1842), in a single volume as True Stories from History and Biography. Please do not combine this LT work with True Stories from History and Biography.

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Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Hook younger readers on early American history with this engaging collection of interlinked stories from literary master Nathaniel Hawthorne. Using a recurring motif of a beautifully crafted antique chair, Hawthorne weaves together tales of the founding days of New England and the United States.

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