Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brian Harding
ISBN-13: 9780199555154, ISBN-10: 019955515X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: April 2009
Edition: Reissue
"Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them," Nathaniel Hawthorne once reflected. Hawthorne's own words indeed had an undeniable power. Author of The Scarlet Letter and originator of the American short story, Hawthorne left an indelible impression on literature that would influence his fellow writers into the next century.
The first paperback edition to include full annotations of these twenty Hawthorne tales written between the 1830s and 50s, this volume contains the classic pieces "Young Goodman Brown," "The Maypole of Merry Mount," "The Birthmark," "The Celestial Railroad," and "Earth's Holocaust," as well as tales, such as "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," which represent Hawthorne's interest in the spiritual history of New England.
Introduction | ||
Note on the Text | ||
A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
The Gentle Boy (1832) | 3 | |
My Kinsman, Major Molineux (1832) | 37 | |
Roger Malvin's Burial (1832) | 56 | |
The Canterbury Pilgrims (1833) | 76 | |
The Seven Vagabonds (1833) | 86 | |
The Grey Champion (1835) | 103 | |
Young Goodman Brown (1835) | 111 | |
Wakefield (1835) | 124 | |
The Maypole of Merry Mount (1836) | 133 | |
The Minister's Black Veil (1836) | 144 | |
Dr Heidegger's Experiment (1837) | 158 | |
Endicott and the Red Cross (1838) | 168 | |
The Birthmark (1843) | 175 | |
The Celestial Railroad (1843) | 192 | |
The Christmas Banquet (1844) | 209 | |
Earth's Holocaust (1844) | 228 | |
The Artist of the Beautiful (1844) | 248 | |
Drowne's Wooden Image (1844) | 272 | |
Rappaccini's Daughter (1844) | 285 | |
Ethan Brand (1850) | 316 | |
Explanatory Notes | 333 | |
Select Bibliography | 382 | |
Textual Notes | 392 |