Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
| First published | 1846 |
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| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
A man is tormented by a serpent inside him. He created it by too much critical self-contemplation, but it is no mere figure of speech, because others see it when it finally leaves him.
First published in The Democratic Review, March 1843.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1846 | Mosses from an Old Manse | Wiley and Putnam | Collection | 22|2022 | |
| 1854 | Mosses from an Old Manse | Ticknor and Fields | Collection | 2030 | |
| 1937 |
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library | Omnibus | 1106 |
| 1950 | Selected Tales and Sketches | Rinehart | Collection | |17 | |
| 1962 |
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Hawthorne's Short Stories | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Collection | |21 |
| 1963 |
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The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories | Signet / New American Library | Collection | |
| 1970 |
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Selected Tales and Sketches | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | Collection | 249 |
| 1982 |
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Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 781 |
| 1987 |
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Selected Tales and Sketches | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 279 |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |781 | |
| October 2008 | The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural | Tartarus Press | Collection | 274 |