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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne: 70+ Short Stories in One Edition
Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Snow Image and other stories
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[email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-272-3351-9
Table of Contents
1 The Gray Champion.
2 Sunday at Home.
3 The Wedding-Knell.
4 The Minister’s Black Veil: A Parable.
5 The Maypole of Merry Mount.
6 The Gentle Boy.
7 Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe.
8 Little Annie’s Ramble.
9 Wakefield.
10 A Rill From the Town-Pump.
11 The Great Carbuncle.
12 The Prophetic Pictures.
13 David Swan.
14 Sights From a Steeple.
15 The Hollow of the Three Hills.
16 The Toll-Gatherer’s Day.
17 The Vision of the Fountain.
18 Fancy’s Show-Box.
19 Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment.
20 Legends of the Province-House.Howe’s Masquerade.Edward Randolph’s Portrait.Lady Eleanore’s Mantle.Old Esther Dudley.
21 The Haunted Mind.
22 The Village Uncle.
23 The Ambitious Guest.
24 The Sister-Years.
25 Snowflakes.
26 The Seven Vagabonds.
27 The White Old Maid.
28 Peter Goldthwaite’s Treasure.
29 Chippings with a Chisel.
30 The Shaker Bridal.
31 Night-Sketches,
32 Endicott and the Red Cross.
33 The Lily’s Quest.
34 Footprints on the Seashore.
35 Edward Fane’s Rosebud.
36 The Threefold Destiny.
Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories
1 The Old Manse.
2 The Birthmark
3 A Select Party
4 Young Goodman Brown
5 Rappaccini’s Daughter
6 Mrs. Bullfrog
7 Fire Worship
8 Buds and Bird Voices
9 Monsieur Du Miroir
10 The Hall of Fantasy
11 The Celestial Railroad
12 The Procession of Life
13 The New Adam and Eve
14 Egotism; or, the Bosom Serpent
15 The Christmas Banquet
16 Drowne’s Wooden Image
17 The Intelligence Office
18 Roger Malvin’s Burial
19 P.’s Correspondence
20 Earth’s Holocaust
21 The Old Apple Dealer
22 The Artist of the Beautiful
23 A Virtuoso’s Collection
24 Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
25 Passages From a Relinquished Work
26 Sketches From Memory
The Snow Image and other stories
1 The Snow-Image
2 The Great Stone Face
3 Main Street
4 Ethan Brand
5 A Bell’s Biography
6 Sylph Etherege
7 The Canterbury Pilgrims
8 Old News
9 The Man of Adamant
10 The Devil in Manuscript
11 John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving
12 Old Ticonderoga
13 The Wives of the Dead
14 Little Daffydowndilly
15 My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Twice-Told Tales
The Gray Champion.
There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II., the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny — a governor and council holding office from the king and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people, immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated and the titles of all landed property declared void; the voice of complaint stifled by restrictions on the press; and finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother-country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector or popish monarch. Till these evil times, however, such allegiance had been merely nominal, and the colonists had ruled themselves, enjoying far more freedom than is even yet the privilege of the native subjects of Great Britain.
At length a rumor reached our shores that the prince of Orange had ventured on an enterprise the success of which would be the triumph of civil and religious rights and the salvation of New England. It was but a doubtful whisper; it might be false or the attempt might fail, and in either case the man that stirred against King James would lose his head. Still, the intelligence produced a marked effect. The people smiled mysteriously in the streets and threw bold glances at their oppressors, while far and wide there was a subdued and silent agitation, as if the slightest signal would rouse the whole land from its sluggish despondency. Aware of their danger, the rulers resolved to avert it by an imposing display of strength, and perhaps to confirm their