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Main-Street

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1851
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A showman on the street of a New England town puts on a puppet show (much assisted by imagination) depicting its history since white settlement.

First published as "Main-street" in Esthetic Papers ed. E. P. Peabody, 1849.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1851 The Snow-Image, and Other Tales Henry G. Bohn Collection 34
January 1852 Cover The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales Ticknor, Reed, and Fields Collection 63
1970 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 523
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 1023
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |1023
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