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Tales and Sketches

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1982
Publisher The Library of America
Format Hardcover
Type Omnibus
Pages 1493
Price $35.00
ISBN 0940450038

  • "Roy Harvey Pearce wrote the notes and chronology and selected the contents for this volume"
  • This omnibus is in three parts: All tales and sketches apart from the two children's collections, in the order that they appeared at their first publication; A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys; and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys.
  • The text is that of the Centenary Edition (University of Ohio, 1962–74).
  • Some excerpts from the Note on the Text:
    • "The present volume gathers together all the tales and sketches collected by the author, as well as those which remained uncollected during his lifetime, and rearranges them in the order of their first appearance before the American public.... The chronological arrangement has been... adjusted slightly, so that... "Legends of the Province-House," a set of framed tales first published separately in the Democratic Review (1838–39), may be read as [an] integrated literary [unit], as Hawthorne intended...."
    • "Because Hawthorne made various corrections and revisions to the collected versions of the tales and sketches, the texts of the periodical versions have not been adopted. The texts here printed are those established by the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's Works.... These are unmodernized, critical texts.... In several instances [including "The Threefold Destiny," "The Sister Years," "The Hall of Fantasy," and "P.'s Correspondence"], Hawthorne made substantial deletions in preparing the collected versions, and these deletions are considered authoritativeby the Centenary. In addition, Hawthorne occasionally altered the titles of his works for the collections, and the altered titles are also considered authoritative...."
    • "Omitted from the present collection are several sketches attributed to Hawthorne by the Centenary editors [including "The Battle Omen" and "Graves and Goblins"] because the evidence for Hawthorne's authorship of these tales is not as strong as that for other attributed pieces."
  • The chronology (pp. 1471-1476) and story notes (pp. 1483-1493) have not been indexed here.
  • Data from Amazon as of 2017-10-10.

Page Title Author(s) Type
7 The Hollow of the Three Hills Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
12 Sir William Phips Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
18 Mrs. Hutchinson Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
25 An Old Woman's Tale Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
34 Dr. Bullivant Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
42 Sights from a Steeple Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
49 The Haunted Quack Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
61 The Wives of the Dead Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
68 My Kinsman, Major Molineux Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
88 Roger Malvin's Burial Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
108 The Gentle Boy Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
139 The Seven Vagabonds Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
156 The Canterbury Pilgrims Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
166 Sir William Pepperell Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
174 Passages from a Relinquished Work Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Fiction
188 Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
200 The Haunted Mind Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
205 Alice Doane's Appeal Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
217 The Village Uncle: An Imaginary Retrospect Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
228 Little Annie's Ramble Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
236 The Gray Champion Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
244 My Visit to Niagara Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
251 Old News Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Fiction
276 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
290 Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
299 The Ambitious Guest Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
308 A Rill from the Town-Pump Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
314 The White Old Maid Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
324 The Vision of the Fountain Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
330 The Devil in Manuscript Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
338 The Notch of the White Mountains Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
340 Our Evening Party Among the Mountains Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
344 The Canal Boat Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
352 The Wedding-Knell Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
360 The May-Pole of Merry Mount Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
371 The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
385 Old Ticonderoga: A Picture of the Past Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
390 A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
395 Monsieur du Miroir Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
406 Mrs. Bullfrog Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
414 Sunday at Home Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
421 The Man of Adamant: An Apologue Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
429 David Swan: A Fantasy Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
435 The Great Carbuncle: A Mystery of the White Mountains Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
450 Fancy's Show Box: A Morality Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
456 The Prophetic Pictures Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
470 Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
480 A Bell's Biography Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
487 Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Fiction
501 Edward Fane's Rosebud Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
508 The Toll-Gatherer's Day: A Sketch of Transitory Life Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
514 Sylph Etherege Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
522 Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
542 Endicott and the Red Cross Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
549 Night Sketches: Beneath an Umbrella Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
555 The Shaker Bridal Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
561 Foot-Prints on the Sea-Shore Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
571 Thomas Green Fessenden Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
585 Time's Portraiture Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
593 Snow-Flakes Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
598 The Threefold Destiny: A Faëry Legend Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
607 Jonathan Cilley Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
616 Chippings with a Chisel Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
626 Legends of the Province-House: I. Howe's Masquerade Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
640 Legends of the Province-House: II. Edward Randolph's Portrait Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
652 Legends of the Province-House: III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
667 Legends of the Province-House: IV. Old Esther Dudley Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
678 The Sister Years Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
685 The Lily's Quest: An Apologue Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
692 John Inglefield's Thanksgiving Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
697 A Virtuoso's Collection Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
714 The Old Apple-Dealer Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
721 The Antique Ring Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
734 The Hall of Fantasy Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
746 The New Adam and Eve Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
764 The Birth-Mark Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
781 Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent: From the Unpublished "Allegories of the Heart" Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
795 The Procession of Life Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
808 The Celestial Rail-Road Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
825 Buds and Bird-Voices Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
834 Little Daffydowndilly Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
841 Fire-Worship Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
849 The Christmas Banquet: From the Unpublished "Allegories of the Heart" Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
868 A Good Man's Miracle Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
873 The Intelligence Office Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
887 Earth's Holocaust Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
907 The Artist of the Beautiful Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
932 Drowne's Wooden Image Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
945 A Select Party Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
959 A Book of Autographs Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
975 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
1006 P.'s Correspondence Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
1023 Main-Street Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
1051 Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
1068 The Great Stone Face Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
1087 The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
1103 Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
1123 The Old Manse: Preface to Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
1150 Preface to Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
1154 Preface to The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Tales and Sketches 2007 The Library of America Hardcover Omnibus 1493