Selected stories / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; [selected and] introduction by Brenda Wineapple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.

Contributor:

Wineapple, Brenda, writer of foreword.

Series:

John Harvard library.

John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne’s short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne’s stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized gems. In her introduction, she explores a writer whose best stories, as Wineapple has elsewhere observed, “penetrate the secret horrors of ordinary life, those interstices in the general routine where suddenly something or someone shifts out of place, changing everything.” The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative texts of Hawthorne’s stories in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Note on the Text

Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life

Selected Stories

The Hollow of the Three Hills

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Roger Malvin’s Burial

The Haunted Mind

Young Goodman Brown

Wakefield

The Ambitious Guest

The Devil in Manuscript

The Minister’s Black Veil

Night Sketches

Old Esther Dudley

A Virtuoso’s Collection

The Birth-mark

Egotism; or, the Bosom-Serpent

Earth’s Holocaust

The Artist of the Beautiful

Rappaccini’s Daughter

The Old Manse

Ethan Brand

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-27351-6

OCLC:

1256504767