| Edition |
First Vintage classics edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 422 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Vintage classics |
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Vintage classics.
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| Note |
Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946 and in paperback by Vintage Books, New York, 1955. |
| Contents |
The gray champion -- The minister's black veil -- The maypole of Merry Mount -- The gentle boy -- Wakefield -- The great carbuncle -- The prophetic pictures -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment -- Lady Eleanore's mantle -- Old Esther Dudley -- The ambitious guest -- The white old maid -- Peter Goldthwaite's treasure -- Endicott and the Red Cross -- The birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's daughter -- The celestial railroad -- Feathertop, a moralized legend -- Egotism, or, The bosom serpent -- The Christmas banquet -- Drowne's wooden image -- Earth's holocaust -- The artist of the beautiful -- The great stone face -- Ethan Brand -- The wives of the dead -- The antique ring -- Alice Doane's appeal. |
| Summary |
Twenty four of the best of Hawthorne's short stories. |
| Subject |
New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Spine Title |
Short stories |
| ISBN |
9780307741219 |
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0307741214 |
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