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Roger Malvin's Burial

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1846
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

18th century: Reuben Bourne and Roger Malvin are wounded in a battle; Reuben promises to bury the mortally-wounded Malvin but must flee without doing so. Guilt haunts him for the rest of his life, culminating in a tragedy at the same place where Melvin died.

Notes

First published (uncredited) in The Token, 1832.

Publications (23)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1846 Mosses from an Old Manse Wiley and Putnam Collection 90|2090
1854 Mosses from an Old Manse Ticknor and Fields Collection 2111
1890 Allegories of the Heart Henry Altemus Company Collection 69
1934 Cover A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen Daily Express Publications Anthology 575
1934 Cover A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen Daily Express Publications Anthology 575
1937 Cover The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 1125
1937 Cover Century of Thrillers President Press Anthology 214|3214
1950 Selected Tales and Sketches Rinehart Collection |5
1963 Cover The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories Signet / New American Library Collection
1968 Cover The Birthmark and Other Stories Scholastic Book Services Collection
1968 The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories Little, Brown Anthology |2
1968 Cover The Birthmark and Other Stories Scholastic Book Services Collection
1970 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 46
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 88
1987 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Penguin Books (US) Collection 51
February 1992 Cover Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories Dover Publications Collection 60
June 1992 Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / El doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde Alhambra Anthology |1
May 1999 Cover Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories Könemann Collection 31
2005 Cover The Portable Hawthorne Penguin Books (US) Collection 30
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |88
October 2008 The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural Tartarus Press Collection 6
December 2011 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 Leonaur Ltd Collection
December 2011 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 Leonaur Ltd Collection