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The May-Pole of Merry Mount

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1837
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

During Puritan times, a Maypole dance and wedding at the free-spirited settlement of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrymount_(Quincy,_Massachusetts)">Merrymount</a> is interrupted by authorities intent on subjecting the revelers to the law.

First published (as by "the author of The Gentle Boy") in the Token, 1836.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1837 Cover Twice-Told Tales American Stationers Co. Collection 77
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |5
1897 Cover Twice-Told Tales Maynard, Merrill, & Co. Collection |3
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 70
1937 Cover The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 882
1941 The Best Known Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Classics Omnibus 332
1950 Selected Tales and Sketches Rinehart Collection |13
1962 Cover Hawthorne's Short Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |4
1963 Cover The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories Signet / New American Library Collection
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 34
1970 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 199
1972 The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories Little, Brown Anthology |1
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 360
1987 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Penguin Books (US) Collection 172
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 35
May 1999 Cover Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories Könemann Collection 133
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 38
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 49
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |360
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 36
December 2011 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 4 Leonaur Ltd Collection
December 2011 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 4 Leonaur Ltd Collection
June 2012 Cover Twice-Told Tales ReadHowYouWant Collection 86