Selected Tales and Sketches
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; selected and with an introduction by Michael J. Colacurcio.
Contributors: Colacurcio, Michael J.
Edition: 19th printing
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780140390575
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature.

With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly – often wickedly – unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader’s imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne’s longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
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Notes: Bibliography: p. 440.
Table of contents: title: Hollow of the Three Hills; title: Sir William Phips; title: Mrs. Hutchinson; title: Wives of the Dead; title: My Kinsman, Major Molineux; title: Roger Malvin's Burial; title: Passages from a Relinquished Work; title: Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe; title: Haunted Mind; title: Alice Doane's Appeal; title: Gray Champion; title: Young Goodman Brown; title: Wakefield; title: Notch of the White Mountains; title: Ambitious Guest; title: May-Pole of Merry Mount; title: Minister's Black Veil; title: Sunday at Home; title: Man of Adamant; title: Endicott and the Red Cross; title: Night Sketches; title: Legens of the Province-House; title: Hall of Fantasy; title: Birthmark; title: Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent; title: Christmas Banquet; title: Celestial Railroad; title: Earth's Holocaust; title: Artist of the Beautiful; title: Rappacini’s Daughter; title: Ethan Brand