home happiness; dismissed from office; his resentment; his susceptibility; applies to Hillard; his mother's death; visited by Fields; a bitter experience, letter to Hillard; finishes "Scarlet Letter"; fame established; characteristics of his genius; stoicism; unsympathetic as an artist; farewell to Salem; family life in Berkshire; productive period; "House of the Seven Gables" written and published; power of realistic detail; marvelous art; no sympathy with reform; fatalistic trait; Rose born; delight in his children; his "spiritual sense of life"; narrow intellectual interests; temporary residence in West Newton; "Blithedale Romance" written; purchases "The Wayside"; objects to writing Pierce's "Life"; friendship for Pierce; an unsparing critic; accepts Liverpool consulate; life at Liverpool; notable official action; his opinion of philanthropy; kindly received in England; good after-dinner speaker; alien in England; excursions; competence secured; resigns consulate; life in Italy; its influence; begins "Marble Faun"; describes Villa MontaŁto; Una's illness; leaves Rome and finishes "Marble Faun"; height of his literary power; sensitive temperament; creative genius; defective technique; his fullest expression; returns to Concord; health fails; despairs of the Union; mental attitude in politics; last days; Works. _Alice Doane's Appeal_; _Ambitious Guest, The_; American Note-Books; Ancestral Footstep, The; _Artist of the Beautiful, The_; _Bald Eagle_; _Bells_; _Bell's Biography, A_; Biographical stories, _note_; _Birthmark, The_; _Buds and Bird Voices_; _Canterbury Pilgrims, The_; _Celestial Railroad, The, note_; _Chiefly about War Matters_; _Chippings with a Chisel_; _Christmas Banquet, The_; _Cilley, Jonathan_; _Custom House, The_; _David Swan_; _Devil in Manuscript, The_; _Diary, First_, authenticity questioned, _note_; Dr. Grimshawe's Secret; Dolliver Romance, The; _Dr. Heidegger's Experiment_; _Downer's Banner, The_; _Drowne's Wooden Image_; _Duston Family, The_; _Earth's Holocaust_; _Edward Fane's Rosebud_; _Edward Randolph's Portrait_; _Egotism, or the Bosom Serpent_; _Endicott and the Red Cross_; _Ethan Brand_; _Fancy's Show Box_; Famous Old People; Fanshawe, _note_; _Fessenden, Thomas Green_; _Fire Worship_; _Footprints on the Sea-Shore_; _Gentle Boy, The, note_; Grandfather's Chair; _Graves and Goblins_; _Gray Champion, The_; _Great Carbuncle, The_; _Great Stone Face, The_; _Hall of Fantasy, The_; _Haunted Mind, The_; _Haunted Quack, The_; _Hollow of the Three Hills, The_; House of the Seven Gables, The; _Howe's Masquerade_; _Intelligence Office, The_; _John Inglefield's Thanksgiving_; _Journal of a Solitary Man_; _Lady Eleanore's Mantle_; Liberty Tree, The, _note_; _Lily's Quest, The_;