A story of Puritan times: a boy is abandoned by his fanatical Quaker mother and persecuted by Puritans, but is taken in by a kindly moderate Puritan family.
Written in 1828 (one of Hawthorne's earliest stories); first published in The Token, 1832.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1837 |
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Twice-Told Tales | American Stationers Co. | Collection | 97 |
| 1842 | Twice-Told Tales | James Munroe | Collection | |6 | |
| 1907 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 85 |
| 1937 |
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library | Omnibus | 890 |
| 1941 | The Best Known Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Literary Classics | Omnibus | 340 | |
| 1962 |
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Hawthorne's Short Stories | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Collection | |5 |
| 1965 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Airmont Books | Collection | 43 |
| 1970 |
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Selected Tales and Sketches | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | Collection | 68 |
| 1982 |
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Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 108 |
| October 1989 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Reader's Digest | Collection | 48 |
| May 1999 |
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories | Könemann | Collection | 55 |
| 2001 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Modern Library | Collection | 49 |
| October 2004 | Twice-Told Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 63 | |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |108 | |
| August 2010 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Gray Rabbit Publications | Collection | 43 |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2011 |
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| June 2012 |
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Twice-Told Tales | ReadHowYouWant | Collection | 112 |