Selected Tales and Sketches
by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Michael J. Colacurcio
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The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature.
With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly – often wickedly – unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader’s imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne’s longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
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Satanism, Fiction, short story, Puritans, catechism, fiction classics, literary fiction, sextons, clergy, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author)People
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Selected Tales and Sketches
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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Selected Tales and Sketches
1987, Penguin Books
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Bibliography: p. 440.
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31 Selections:
Alice Doane's Appeal
Ambitious Guest
Artist of the Beautiful
Birth-Mark
Celestial Railroad
Christmas Banquet
Earth's Holocaust
Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent
Endicott and the Red Cross
Ethan Brand
Gray Champion
Hall of Fantasy
Haunted Mind
Hollow of the Three Hills
Legens of the Province-House
Man of Adamant
May-Pole of Merry Mount
Minister's Black Veil
Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
Mrs. Hutchinson
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Night Sketches
Notch of the White Mountains
Passages from a Relinquished Work
Rappaccini's Daughter
Roger Malvin's Burial
Sir William Phips
Sunday at Home
Wakefield
Wives of the Dead
Young Goodman Brown
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