Description |
1 online resource (595 pages) |
Contents |
Gray champion -- Sunday at home -- Wedding-knell -- Minister's black veil -- Maypole of Merry Mount -- Gentle boy -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe -- Little Annie's ramble -- Wakefield -- Rill from the town pump -- Great carbuncle -- Prophetic pictures -- David Swan -- Sights from a steeple -- Hollow of the three hills -- Toll-gatherer's day -- Vision of the fountain -- Fancy's show box -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment -- Legends of the Province-House -- Howe's masquerade -- Edward Randolph's portrait -- Lady Eleanore's mantle -- Old Esther Dudley -- Haunted mind -- Village uncle -- Ambitious guest -- Sister years -- Snow-flakes -- Seven vagabonds -- White old maid -- Peter Goldthwaite's treasure -- Chippings with a chisel -- Shaker bridal -- Night sketches -- Endicott and the Red Cross -- Lily's quest -- Foot-prints on the sea-shore -- Edward Fane's rosebud -- Threefold destiny |
Summary |
Annotation The author of such short-fiction masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil," Nathaniel Hawthorne is regarded as one of the most significant American writers of the nineteenth century. This volume collects many of his most famous short works and is a fitting compendium of his literary achievements for newcomers or longtime Hawthorne fans alike |
Subject |
Historical fiction, American.
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FICTION -- General.
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Historical fiction, American
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Manners and customs
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SUBJECT |
New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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Subject |
New England
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Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781775419822 |
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1775419827 |
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