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Contents The Birthmark Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Egotism; or, The Bosom ...

PHILADELPHIA: DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER, 23 SOUTH NINTH STREET.

IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed "The Scarlet Letter," he began "The House of the Seven Gables."

The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearan...

What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself after starting from midnight slumber!

DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT THE BIRTHMARK ETHAN BRAND WAKEFIELD DROWNE'S WOODEN IMAGE THE AMBITIOUS GUEST THE GREAT STONE FACE...

CHAPTER I MIRIAM, HILDA, KENYON, DONATELLO Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery i...

With 60 Designs by Walter Crane Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company [Illustration: BELLEROPHON ON PEGASVS] Copyright, 1851, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Copyright, 1879, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop ...

GRANDFATHER had been sitting in his old arm-chair all that pleasant afternoon, while the children were pursuing their various sports far off or near at hand, Sometimes you would have said, "Grandfa...

A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young friend Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire.

EARTH'S HOLOCAUST Once upon a time--but whether in the time past or time to come is a matter of little or no moment--this wide world had become so overburdened with an accumulation of worn-out t...

WITH PICTURES BY MAXFIELD PARRISH NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY MCMX COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DUFFIELD & COMPANY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. [Illustration: JAS...

The Ambitious Guest Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure The Shaker Bridal Endicott and the Red Cross FROM TWICE-TOLD TALES THE GRAY CHAMPION There was once a time when New England groaned un...

I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderable disappointment to me had you withheld it; for I have long desired to conne...

1882 CONTENTS Introduction The Great Stone Face The Ambitious Guest The Great Carbuncle Sketches From Memory INTRODUCTION THE first three numbers in this collection...

Contents The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle The Great Stone Face Ethan Brand The Canterbury Pilgrims The Devil in Manuscript My Kinsman, Major Molineux THE SNOW-IMAGE: A CHILDISH...

The following story, the simple and domestic incidents of which may be deemed scarcely worth relating, after such a lapse of time, awakened some degree of interest, a hundred years ago, in a princi...

The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.

In the old times of religious gloom and intolerance lived Richard Digby, the gloomiest and most intolerant of a stern brotherhood.

Respectable-looking individual makes his bow and addresses the public.

Volume II. In Two Volumes Contents: Volume I I MIRIAM, HILDA, KENYON, DONATELLO II THE FAUN III SUBTERRANEAN REMINISCENCES IV THE SPECTRE OF THE ...

BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES CONTENTS: Mrs. Hutchinson Sir William Phips Sir William Pepperell Thomas Green Fessenden Jonathan Cilley MRS. HUTCHINSON.

With Illustrations by Marcus Waterman.

THE GORGON'S HEAD CONTENTS: TANGLEWOOD PORCH--Introductory to "The Gorgon's Head" THE GORGON'S HEAD TANGLEWOOD PORCH--After the Story The author has long been of opinion that many of ...

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[This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart, related in Dunlap's History of the Arts of Design,--a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply interesting one, we should think...

THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICE Grave figure, with a pair of mysterious spectacles on his nose and a pen behind his ear, was seated at a desk in the corner of a metropolitan office.

THE CHRISTMAS BANQUET [FROM THE UNPUBLISHED "_ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART_."] "I have here attempted," said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the scu...

CHAPTER I. "Our court shall be a little Academe."--SHAKESPEARE.

Salem, June 15, 1835.--A walk down to the Juniper.

THE NEW ADAM AND EVE We who are born into the world's artificial system can never adequately know how little in our present state and circumstances is natural, and how much is merely the interpo...

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors!

It must be a spirit much unlike my own, which can keep itself in health and vigor without sometimes stealing from the sultry sunshine of the world, to plunge into the cool bath of solitude.

[EXTRACTS FROM HIS PRIVATE LETTERS.] Brook Farm, Oak Hill, April 13th, 1841.--.

I. To Francis Bennoch, Esq., The dear and valued friend, who, by his generous and genial hospitality and unfailing sympathy, contributed so largely (as is attested by the book itself) to render...

THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES CONTENTS: TANGLEWOOD FIRESIDE--Introductory to "The Three Golden Apples" THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES TANGLEWOOD FIRESIDE--After the Story INTRODUCTORY TO "THE THR...

CHAPTER I. When Edward Temple was about eight or nine years old he was afflicted with a disorder of the eyes.

Septimius Felton; Or, The Elixir Of Life.

EDITED, WITH PREFACE AND NOTES BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE TO MR. AND MRS. GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP, The Son...

Franklin Pierce was born at Hillsborough, in the State of New Hampshire, on the 23d of November, 1804.

On a bright summer evening, two persons stood among the shrubbery of a garden, stealthily watching a young girl, who sat in the window seat of a neighboring mansion.

during their years of courtship.

THE HALL OF FANTASY It has happened to me, on various occasions, to find myself in a certain edifice which would appear to have some of the characteristics of a public exchange.

April 4th, 1856.--On Tuesday I went to No. 14 Ludgate Hill, to dine with Bennoch at the Milton Club; a club recently founded for dissenters, nonconformists, and people whose ideas, religious or pol...

THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN CONTENTS: TANGLEWOOD PLAY-ROOM--Introductory to "The Paradise of Children" THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN TANGLEWOOD PLAY-ROOM--After the Story TANGLEWOOD PLAY-ROOM.

THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER CONTENTS: THE HILLSIDE.--Introductory to "The Miraculous Pitcher" THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER THE HILLSIDE--After the Story INTRODUCTORY TO "THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER" ...

AN OLD WOMAN'S TALE In the house where I was born, there used to be an old woman crouching all day long over the kitchen fire, with her elbows on her knees and her feet in the ashes.

A VIRTUOSO'S COLLECTION The other day, having a leisure hour at my disposal, I stepped into a new museum, to which my notice was casually drawn by a small and unobtrusive sign: "TO BE SEEN HERE,...