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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Selected Stories
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Note on the Text
Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life
Selected Stories
The Hollow of the Three Hills
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Roger Malvin’s Burial
The Haunted Mind
Young Goodman Brown
Wakefield
The Ambitious Guest
The Devil in Manuscript
The Minister’s Black Veil
Night Sketches
Old Esther Dudley
A Virtuoso’s Collection
The Birth-mark
Egotism; or, the Bosom-Serpent
Earth’s Holocaust
The Artist of the Beautiful
Rappaccini’s Daughter
The Old Manse
Ethan Brand
Selected Bibliography
Description:
Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne’s short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne’s stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized gems. In her introduction, she explores a writer whose best stories, as Wineapple has elsewhere observed, “penetrate the secret horrors of ordinary life, those interstices in the general routine where suddenly something or someone shifts out of place, changing everything.” The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative texts of Hawthorne’s stories in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne