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Twice-told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1886. Hawthorne's collected tales, held because seven of the legends this archive already carries are printed here in a volume older than the folklore collections they were lifted from — The Gray Champion, The May-Pole of Merrymount, Endicott and the Red Cross, and the four Legends of the Province House among them.

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book

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher

Boston Houghton, Mifflin

Published, as stated

1886

Language

en

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:LO •o 00 hTI Iflitjcrsitic o^tiition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP ' AND ILLUSTRATED WITH Etchmgs by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOLUME I. Ljtidy Et<?ccnoR?',sM(inn,^ TWICE-TOLD TALES BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE BOSTON AND NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. Cfee t;iUcc?iCie pccsa, CambriDjie. 1886. PS ^RARy DEC 1 8 1957 Copyright, 1S51, Br NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Copyright, 1879, Br ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP. Copyright, 1882, Br HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved. &A THIRTEENTH EDITION. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by U. 0- Houghton A' Co. COI^TEISTTS. ¥— PAfll Introductory Note 7 Preface 13 The Gray Champion 21 Sunday at Home 32 The Wedding Knell 41 The Minister's Black Veil 52 sjThe May-Pole of Merry Mount 70 The Gentle Boy 85 Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe 127 Little Annie's Ramble 143 Wakefield 153 A Rill from the Town Pump 165 The Great Carbuncle .173 The Prophetic Pictures 192 David Swan . . 211 ^Sights from a Steeple 219 "^ The Hollow of the Three Hills 228 The Toll-Gatherer's Day 234 The Vision of the Fountain 242 Fancy's Show Box . . _250 Dr, Heidegger's Experiment . . . - . 258 Legends of the Province House. I. Howe's Masquerade 272 II. Edward Randolph's Portrait . . . . 291 III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle 307 IV. Old Esther Dudley 328 6 CONTENTS. PAQI The Haunted Mind 343 The Village Uncle 349 The Ambitious Guest 364 The Sister Years 375 Snowflakes 385 The Seven Vagabonds 392 The White Old Maid 414 Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure 428 Chippings with a Chisel 455 The Shaker Bridal 469 Night Sketches 477 Endicott and the Red Cross 485 The Lily's Quest 495 Footprints on the Sea-Shore 504 Edward Fane's Rosebud 517 The Threefold Destiny 527 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE TWICE-TOLD TALES. On his return to his native town, Salem, after grad- uating at Bowdoin College in 1825, Hawthorne de- voted himself to writing fiction. His first book was the romance of " Fanshawe," ^ which, however, made no impression on the public. He next produced a volume of stories to wliich he gave the title " Seven Tales of my Native Land " ; but, after discouraging search for a publisher, he destroyed the manuscript. Whether any of the material composing that work was embodied in his later short stories it is impossible to determine, on the evidence now remaining. Still, it is not imlikely that he drew upon it, from memory, for the foimdation of some among the "Twice-Told Tales." The sketches and stories now known collec- tively imder this title were written mainly in a little room in the second story of a house on Herbert Street, Salem, from the windows of which Hawthorne's birth- place on the adjoining street (Union) is visible. " In this dismal chamber fame was won : " so runs a pas- sage in the " American Note-Books." Under another date he says of it : " And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world tP know me, and some- times wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all." 1 See vol. 1 1 of this edition. 8 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The Herbert Street house was habitually referred to by the members of the Hawthorne family as being on Union Street, since the family residenc

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