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Choice collection of short fiction by one of the masters of the genre. In addition to the title story, this volume includes "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini’s Daughter," "Roger Malvin’s Burial," "The Artist of the Beautiful," "Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment" and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux." Reprinted... read more

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  1. Young Goodman Brown

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

    In the interval of silence he stole forward until the light glared full upon his eyes. At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an alter or a...

  2. The Birthmark (AMERICAN LITERATURE)

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The main character is a great scientist and lover of nature with a beautiful wife whom he loves dearly. However, despite the love Aylmer has for his wife, he wonders whether the birthmark she has on her cheek can be removed.

  3. Rappaccini's Daughter

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

    Nor did he fail again to observe, or imagine, an analogy between the beautiful girl and the gorgeous shrub that hung its gem-like flowers over the fountain; a resemblance which Beatrice seemed to have indulged a fantastic humor in heightening,...

  4. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

    Dr. Heidegger experiments with four of his friends by giving them water supposedly from the Fountain of Youth.

  5. My Kinsman Major Molineux

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Garden of Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766148335.

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In the course of the year 1656, several of the people called Quakers, led, as they professed, by the inward movement of the spirit, made their appearance in New England.

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Introduction
Note on the Text
A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne

1. The Gentle Boy
2. My Kinsman, Major Molineux
3. Roger Malvin's Burial
4. The Canterbury Pilgrims
5. The Seven Vagabonds
6. The Grey Champion
7. Young Goodman Brown
8. Wakefield
9. The Maypole of Merry Mount
10. The Minister's Black Veil
11. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
12. Endicott and the Red Cross
13. The Birthmark
14. The Celestial Railroad
15. The Christmas Banquet
16. Earth's Holocaust
17. The Artist of the Beautiful
18. Drowne's Wooden Image
19. Rappaccini's Daughter
20. Ethan Brand

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  1. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1835
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Page Count: 111

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