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The Intelligence Office

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1846
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An office where the citizens of Boston seek what they want: be it something as mundane as a job, or as allegorical as the objects the applicants in this story are asking after.

First published in The Democratic Review, March 1844.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1846 Mosses from an Old Manse Wiley and Putnam Collection 74|2074
1854 Mosses from an Old Manse Ticknor and Fields Collection 2092
1890 Allegories of the Heart Henry Altemus Company Collection 51
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 873
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |873
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