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Nathaniel Hawthorne's tales : authoritative texts, backgrounds, criticism /

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Contains fully annotated reprints of twenty-one tales and sketches by nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne; selected commentary by the author on his works; and several examples of criticism from contemporaries such as Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe and more recent writers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Other Authors: McIntosh, James, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton, [1987]
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
New England > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864. > Tales.
Short stories in English > American writers, 1830-1861 - Texts
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Geschichte 1836-1980.
Erzählung.
Rezeption.
Table of Contents:
  • The text of the tales
  • My Kinsman, Major Molineux
  • Roger Malvin's burial
  • The gentle boy
  • The haunted mind
  • The gray champion
  • Young Goodman Brown
  • Wakefield
  • The ambitious guest
  • The May-Pole of Merry Mount
  • The minister's black veil
  • The man of adamant
  • Endicott and the Red Cross
  • The birthmark
  • The celestial rail-road
  • Earth's Holocaust
  • The artist of the beautiful
  • Drowne's wooden image
  • Rappaccini's daughter
  • Main-street
  • Ethan Brand
  • Feathertop.