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Author Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Title Twice-told tales / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published [Waiheke Island] : Floating Press, ©2010

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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.
FICTION -- General.
Historical fiction, American
Manners and customs
SUBJECT New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Subject New England
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781775419822
1775419827