Selected Tales and Sketches
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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Selected Tales and Sketches
1987, Penguin Books
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in English
- 19th printing
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Tales and Sketches / A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys / Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys
1982, Library of America
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in English
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Selected Tales and Sketches
1974, Rinehart Press
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Contains 33 stories:
Alice Doane's Appeal
Ambitious Guest
Artist of the Beautiful
Birth-mark
Celestial Rail-road
Christmas Banquet
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Earth's Holocaust
Egotism; or Bosom-Serpent
Endicott and the Red Cross
Ethan Brand
Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
Gray Champion
Great Stone Face
Hall of Fantasy
Haunted Mind
Hollow of the Three Hills
Legends of the Province-House
Major Molineux
Man of Adamant
May-Pole of Merry Mount
Minister's Black Veil
Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
Mrs. Hutchinson
My Kinsman
Night Sketches
Notch of the White Mountain
Passages from a Relinquished Work
Prophetic Pictures
Rappaccini's Daughter
Roger Malvin's Burial
Sir William Phips
Snow Image
Sunday at Home
Wakefield
Wives of the Dead
Young Goodman Brown
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