It begins by suggesting, "there was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution."
It begins by suggesting, "there was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution." Edgar Allen Poe's review of this collection in the Broadway Journal  felt its reliance on the allegory and didatic was heresy. This collection includes the stories of a gathering of forest creatures to celebrate the marriage of Edgar and Edith which is brutally interrupted by John Endicott and his Puritan followers and a physician who brings together four friends to sample his discovery of the Fountain of Youth. In addition to "The Maypole at Merry Mount" and "Dr. Heidigger's Experiment", it also tells the story of Reverend Hooper's inexplicable attraction to a certain garment, "The Minister's Black Veil". For 10 points, name this 1837 collection, so named because its stories had been previously published in magazines, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
It begins by suggesting, "there was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution."
Twice Told Tales