WorkNathaniel Hawthorne

The Celestial Railroad

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Documented 1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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American Literature

“American Literature”

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“The Celestial Railroad," for its wit, wisdom, and the graceful adroitness with which the natural and material objects are interwoven with the allegories, has already won its meed of admiration.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p322

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p322; page given is to the 1869 reprint.