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The Vision of the Fountain

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1837
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"The author tells us of the time when he was a boy of fifteen, and how once, upon an autumn day, a "Vision" of the same beautiful girl appeared to him twice... Three months go by when he does not see her, and then surprisingly... he sees his "Vision" again and discovers her to be a regular normal person of local origin." -- Bill Kerwin

First published (as by "the author of The Gray Champion") in the New England Magazine, August 1835.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1837 Cover Twice-Told Tales American Stationers Co. Collection 295
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |17
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 242
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 324
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 162
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 204
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |324
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 135
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 371