Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited with an introduction by Brian Harding.
Contributors: Harding, Brian
Series: The World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 398
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Description: This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's most important tales begins with 'The Gentle Boy', published in 1832, and concludes with 'Ethan Brand', which first appeared in 1850. Rich in allegory and imaginative symbolism, the tales illustrate the development of Hawthorne's preoccupations with the themes of guilt and secrecy, intellectual and moral pride, with the aesthetic representation of the supernatural, and with the decadence (as he percieved it) of New England Puritainism.

This edition notes all the significant texutal changes made by the author to the tales, and provides detailed explanatory notes on Hawthorne's sources and allusions, taking into accounta ll recent Hawthorne scholarship.
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Notes: Bibliography: p. [382]-391.
Table of contents: title: The gentle boy (1832) --; title: My kinsman, Major Molineux (1832) --; title: Roger Malvin's burial (1832) --; title: The Canterbury pilgrims (1833) --; title: The seven vagabonds (1833) --; title: The grey champion (1835) --; title: Young Goodman Brown (1835) --; title: Wakefield (1835) --; title: The maypole of Merry Mount (1836) --; title: The minister's black veil (1836) --; title: Dr. Heidegger's experiment (1837) --; title: Endicott and the red cross (1838) --; title: The birthmark (1843) --; title: The celestial railroad (1843) --; title: The Christmas banquet (1844) --; title: Earth's holocaust (1844) --; title: The artist of the beautiful (1844) --; title: Drowne's wooden image (1844) --; title: Rappaccini's daughter. (1844) --; title: Ethan Brand (1850).