The Toll-Gatherer's Day: A Sketch of Transitory Life
| First published | 1842 |
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| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
A sketch of daily life. "From the vantage of a traveler resting himself on the bench outside the [toll]booth, we see all manner of humanity pass by: a farmer with his oxen, a married couple and their little girl, a pair of young lovers, and even a sour-faced pickle salesman." (Bill Kerwin) At night, the toll-gatherer contemplates the stars and thinks of the ephemeral nature of passing figures.
First published (as by "the author of Twice-Told Tales") in the Democratic Review, October 1837.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1842 | Twice-Told Tales | James Munroe | Collection | |16 | |
| 1907 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 234 |
| 1965 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Airmont Books | Collection | 123 |
| 1982 |
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Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 508 |
| 2001 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Modern Library | Collection | 156 |
| October 2004 | Twice-Told Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 197 | |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |508 | |
| August 2010 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Gray Rabbit Publications | Collection | 130 |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 4 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 4 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection |