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Fancy's Show Box: A Morality

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1837
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An allegory: Mr. Smith is visited by Fancy, Memory, and Conscience who remind him of crimes he has contemplated committing (but didn't), to warn him that he should not feel superior to other people when he has the same dark impulses.

First published (uncredited) in The Token, 1837.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1837 Cover Twice-Told Tales American Stationers Co. Collection 307
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |18
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 250
1950 Selected Tales and Sketches Rinehart Collection |24
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 128
1970 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 422
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 450
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 133
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 168
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 211
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |450
October 2008 The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural Tartarus Press Collection 105
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 140
June 2012 Cover Twice-Told Tales ReadHowYouWant Collection 384