• Introduction - Gordon Hyatt
• HISTORY
• Hawthorne at Home - Paul Auster
• Ninetheenth-Century Salem - Wendell Garrett
• The Peabody Sisters of Salem - Peggy Strong
• Henry David Thoreau, Hawthorne's Concord Gardener - Laura L. Butters
• The Novel and The House of the Sven Gables - Alexandria Mason
• CRITICISM The Scarlet Letter
• Louis Auchincloss
• Seduction and Betrayal - Elizabeth Hardwick
• What Hawthorne Meant to Melville - Hazrrison Hayford
• A Moonlight Visibility: Turning The Scarlet Letter into a Play - Carol Gilligan
• The Scarlet Letter: Movies and Television - Neil Hickey
• Dimmesdale's Ailment, Hawthorne's Insight - M. Gerard Fromm
• Dido's Curse: Hawthorne's Unwilling Radicalism - Michale T. Gilmore
• A Heap of Broken Fragments: Hawthorne and Politics - Brenda Wineapple
• Chiefly About War Matters by a Peaceable Man - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Hawthorne as War Correspondent - Tom Wicker