| Description |
xxxv, 440 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin classics
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 440). |
| Contents |
The hollow of the Three Hills -- Sir William Phips -- Mrs. Hutchinson -- The wives of the dead -- My kinsman, Major Molineux -- Roger Malvin's burial -- Passages from a relinquished work -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe -- The haunted mind -- Alice Doane's appeal -- The gray champion -- Young Goodman Brown -- Wakefield -- The notch of the White Mountains -- The ambitious guest -- The May-Pole of Merry Mount -- The minister's black veil -- Sunday at home -- The man of adamant -- Endicott and the Red Cross -- Night sketches -- Legends of the Province-House -- The hall of fantasy -- The birth-mark -- Egotism, or, The bosom-serpent -- The Christmas banquet -- The celestial rail-road -- Earth's holocaust -- The artist of the beautiful -- Rappaccini's daughter -- Ethan Brand. |
| Summary |
The short stories, reflecting Hawthorne's Puritan background and his use of symbolism and allegory, are presented with biographical notes. |
| Subject |
New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Colacurcio, Michael J.
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| ISBN |
014039057X (pbk.) : $4.95 |
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9780140390575 (pbk.) |
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