Contains:
From American note-books ;
From Hawthorne's prefaces (Rappaccini's daughter ; Twice-told tales ; The house of the seven gables ; The Blithedale romance ; The marble faun) ;
Sketches (The seven vagabonds ; Sights from a steeple ; Fancy's show box ; The haunted mind ; The celestial railroad ; Earth's holocaust) ;
Tales of New England (The maypole of merry mount ; The gentle boy ; The gray champion ; Young Goodman Brown ; The shaker bridal) ;
Moral tales and allegories (Lady Eleanore's mantle ; Feathertop ; The wedding knell ; Minister's Black Veil; Wakefield ; The prophetic pictures ; The artist of the beautiful ; The Birth-Mark ;Rappaccini's Daughter ; Ethan Brand).