Tales and Sketches / A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys / Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Series: The Library of America
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1493
ISBN-13: 9780940450035
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Mythology, Classical -- Juvenile literature; Historical fiction, American; Children's stories, American; New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Fiction.
Other titles: Mosses from an Old Manse / Snow-Image and other twice-told tales / Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys / Twice-Told Tales / Wonder Book for Girls and Boys; Mosses from an old manse.; Snow-image.; Wonder book for girls and boys.; Tanglewood tales for girls and boys.
Description: This 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), 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.
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Table of contents: title: Tales and Sketches; title: The Hollow of the Three Hills; title: Mrs. Hutchinson; title: An Old Woman’s Tale; title: Dr. Bullivant; title: Sights from a Steeple; title: The Haunted Quack; title: The Wives of the Dead; title: My Kinsman, Major Molineux; title: Roger Malvin’s Burial; title: The Gentle Boy; title: The Seven Vagabonds; title: The Canterbury Pilgrims; title: Sir William Pepperell; title: Passages from a Relinquished Work; title: Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe; title: The Haunted Mind; title: Alice Doane’s Appeal; title: The Village Uncle; title: Little Annie’s Ramble; title: The Gray Champion; title: My Visit to Niagara; title: Old News; title: Young Goodman Brown; title: Wakefield; title: The Ambitious Guest; title: A Rill from the Town-Pump; title: The White Old Maid; title: The Vision of the Fountain; title: The Devil in Manuscript; title: Sketches from Memory; title: The Wedding-Knell; title: The May-Pole of Merry Mount; title: The Minister’s Black Veil; title: Old Ticonderoga; title: A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather; title: Monsieur du Miroir; title: Mrs. Bullfrog; title: Sunday at Home; title: The Man of Adamant; title: David Swan; title: The Great Carbuncle; title: Fancy’s Show Box; title: The Prophetic Pictures; title: Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment; title: A Bell’s Biography; title: Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man; title: Edward Fane’s Rosebud; title: The Toll-Gatherer’s Day; title: Sylph Etherege; title: Peter Goldthwaite’s Treasure; title: Endicott and the Red Cross; title: Night Sketches; title: The Shaker Bridal; title: Foot-prints on the Sea-shore; title: Thomas Green Fessenden; title: Time’s Portraiture; title: Snow-flakes; title: The Threefold Destiny; title: Jonathan Cilley; title: Chippings with a Chisel; title: Legends of the Province-House; title: Howe’s Masquerade; title: Edward Randolph’s Portrait; title: Lady Eleanore’s Mantle; title: Old Esther Dudley; title: The Sister Years; title: The Lily’s Quest; title: John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving; title: A Virtuoso’s Collection; title: The Old Apple-Dealer; title: The Antique Ring; title: The Hall of Fantasy; title: The New Adam and Eve; title: The Birth-mark; title: Egotism; or, the Bosom-Serpent; title: The Procession of Life; title: The Celestial Rail-road; title: Buds and Bird-Voices; title: Little Daffydowndilly; title: Fire-Worship; title: The Christmas Banquet; title: A Good Man’s Miracle; title: The Intelligence Office; title: Earth’s Holocaust; title: The Artist of the Beautiful; title: Drowne’s Wooden Image; title: A Select Party; title: A Book of Autographs; title: Rappaccini’s Daughter; title: P.’s Correspondence; title: Main-street; title: Ethan Brand; title: The Great Stone Face; title: The Snow-Image; title: Feathertop; title: Prefaces; title: To Mosses from an Old Manse; title: To Twice-told Tales; title: To The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-told Tales; title: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys; title: Preface; title: Tanglewood Porch: Introductory to “The Gorgon’s Head”; title: The Gorgon’s Head; title: Tanglewood Porch: After the Story; title: Shadow Brook: Introductory to “The Golden Touch”; title: The Golden Touch; title: Shadow Brook: After the Story; title: Tanglewood Play-Room: Introductory to “The Paradise of Children”; title: The Paradise of Children; title: Tanglewood Play-Room: After the Story; title: Tanglewood Fireside: Introductory to “The Three Golden Apples”; title: The Three Golden Apples; title: Tanglewood Fireside: After the Story; title: The Hill-Side: Introductory to “The Miraculous Pitcher”; title: The Miraculous Pitcher; title: The Hill-Side: After the Story; title: Bald Summit: Introductory to “The Chimaera”; title: The Chimaera; title: Bald Summit: After the Story; title: Tanglewood Tales: For Girls and Boys Being a Second Wonder Book; title: The Wayside: Introductory; title: I. The Minotaur; title: II. The Pygmies; title: III. The Dragon’s Teeth; title: IV. Circe’s Palace; title: V. The Pomegranate-Seeds; title: VI. The Golden Fleece