Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches (LOA #2): Twice-told Tales / Mosses from an Old Manse / The Snow-Image / A Wonder Book / Tanglewood Tales / uncollected stories

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Library of America, 06 մյս, 1982 թ. - 1493 էջ
This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume. Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised 1851), Mosses from an Old Manse (1846, 1854), and The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-told Tales (1851), and from his two books of stories for children based on classical myths, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853)—along with sixteen stories not found in any of these volumes.

The stories are arranged, as they never have been in any other edition, in the order of their periodical publication. Readers of Hawthorne will thereby get a unique sense of how he became one of the most powerful and experimental writers of American fiction.

Here are many familiar but always surprising works like “Young Goodman Brown,” “Wakefield,” “The Birth-mark,” “The Artist of the Beautiful,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” and “Ethan Brand.” And here, too, are many others that deserve to be better known, like:
• “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” a suspenseful story of guilt and parricide;
• “The May-Pole of Merry Mount,” where the chances for human love are perilously suspended between the silken license of the revelers and the iron rectitude of the Puritans;
• the masterly tale “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” full of the pains and terrors of national and familial separations, the severing of the ties of blood and culture that united the colonies to England;
• and the exquisite little story “The Wives of the Dead,” about the ambiguities of love and loss, in which, as so often in Hawthorne, the reader at the end is left in a kind of awe at the multiple possibilities of meaning.

To read these stories is to understand anew why Hawthorne is a great artist and an astonishingly contemporary one.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

From inside the book

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The Hollow of the Three Hills
7
Mrs Hutchinson
18
The Haunted Quack
51
The Wives of the Dead
61
The MayPole of Merry Mount
276
Wakefield
290
A Rill from the TownPump
308
The Vision of the Fountain
324
The Threefold Destiny
598
Chippings with a Chisel
616
The Sister Years
678
John Inglefields Thanksgiving
692
The Old AppleDealer
714
The Hall of Fantasy
734
The Birthmark
764
Egotism or the BosomSerpent
781

Sketches from Memory
338
The WeddingKnell
352
The Ministers Black Veil
371
Old Ticonderoga
385
Monsieur du Miroir
395
Mrs Bullfrog
406
Sunday at Home
414
The Man of Adamant
421
David Swan
429
The Great Carbuncle
435
Fancys Show
450
The Prophetic Pictures
456
Dr Heideggers Experiment
470
A Bells Biography
480
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary
487
Edward Fanes Rosebud
501
The TollGatherers
508
Sylph Etherege
514
Endicott and the Red Cross
542
Night Sketches
549
Thomas Green Fessenden
571
Times Portraiture
585
The Procession of Life
795
The Celestial Railroad
808
Buds and BirdVoices
825
FireWorship
841
Preface to Twicetold Tales
849
Preface
1163
The Gorgons Head
1169
After the Story
1190
After the Story
1210
After the Story
1231
After the Story
1254
After the Story
1276
After the Story
1300
Introductory
1307
The Minotaur
1313
The Pygmies
1338
The Dragons Teeth
1356
Circes Palace
1382
The PomegranateSeeds 14 09
1409
The Golden Fleece
1436
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. He lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride in a prosperous past. His boyhood was, in most respects, pleasant and normal. In 1825 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and he returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his Twice-Told Tales (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. The Scarlet Letter (1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by The House of the Seven Gables (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.

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