Fanshawe
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Although he had written many short stories before, Fanshave was Nathaniel Hawthorne's first attempt to write a novel. The novel builds on his experience at Bowdoin College in the early 1820s, and Hawthorne published the novel anonymously in 1828. Commercial failure, Nathaniel Hawthorne's disdain for his first novel can be seen in his attempts to destroy every copy. All unsold copies were burned, and all copies that could be obtained later met the same fate. Twelve years after Hawthorne's death, a copy of it was discovered and eventually republished.
