『An Old Woman's Tale (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")』is a free short e-book of Nathaniel Hawthorne available on Project Gutenberg. It has 3,288 words and may take about 30min to read.
Words Count
30min
3,288
Words
Beginning
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.
Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804 - 1864)