[39] Published in England under the absurd title of Transformation. Hawthorne wrote to Henry Bright: ‘Smith and Elder do take strange liberties with the titles of books. I wanted to call it the Marble Faun, but they insisted on Transformation which will lead the reader to expect a sort of pantomime.’
[40] Letter to Horatio Bridge, May 26, 1861.
[41] Henry James: Terminations.
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Henry David Thoreau
REFERENCES:
R. W. Emerson: ‘Thoreau’ in the ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ August, 1862.
W. E. Channing: Thoreau: the Poet Naturalist, 1873.
F. B. Sanborn: Thoreau, ‘American Men of Letters,’ 1882.
H. S. Salt: Thoreau, ‘Great Writers,’ 1896.