Short e-books (30min to read) of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 Illustrations by Marcus Waterman.

[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THE CHRISTMAS BANQUET [FROM THE UNPUBLISHED "_ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART_."]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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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,...

FRAGMENTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF A SOLITARY MAN I. My poor friend "Oberon"--[See the sketch or story entitled "The Devil in Manuscript," in "The Snow-Image, and other Twice-Told Tales."]--for let...

Rambling on foot in the spring of my life and the summer of the year, I came one afternoon to a point which gave me the choice of three directions.

The man of fancy made an entertainment at one of his castles in the air, and invited a select number of distinguished personages to favor him with their presence.

There is a volume of what were once newspapers each on a small half-sheet, yellow and time-stained, of a coarse fabric, and imprinted with a rude old type.

P.'S CORRESPONDENCE My unfortunate friend P. has lost the thread of his life by the interposition of long intervals of partially disordered reason.

PASSAGES FROM A RELINQUISHED WORK AT HOME From infancy I was under the guardianship of a village parson, who made me the subject of daily prayer and the sufferer of innumerable stripes, using n...

We have before us a volume of autograph letters, chiefly of soldiers and statesmen of the Revolution, and addressed to a good and brave man, General Palmer, who himself drew his sword in the cause.

The moonbeams came through two deep and narrow windows, and showed a spacious chamber, richly furnished in an antique fashion.

I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents, in which the spirit and mechanism of the fairy legend should ...

BUDS AND BIRD VOICES Balmy Spring--weeks later than we expected and months later than we longed for her--comes at last to revive the moss on the roof and walls of our old mansion.

MONSIEUR DU MIROIR Than the gentleman above named, there is nobody, in the whole circle of my acquaintance, whom I have more attentively studied, yet of whom I have less real knowledge, beneath ...

Come!

Passing a summer, several years since, at Edgartown, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, I became acquainted with a certain carver of tombstones, who had travelled and voyaged thither from the inte...

It was now the middle of September.