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Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1842
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Peter Goldthwaite, having ruined himself with bad business decisions, refuses to sell his house (now prime urban real estate), and instead guts it floor by floor looking for a chest of gold he believes an ancestor hid there.

Speculative elements: hints of a ghost. First published (as by "the author of Twice-Told Tales") in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir in 1838.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |31
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 428
1937 Cover The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 996
March 1958 Cover Colecția "Povestiri științifico-fantastice", #73 Știință & Tehnică MAGAZINE 17
1962 Cover Hawthorne's Short Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |14
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 230
1973 Cover La vieille fille blanche et autres contes fantastiques Marabout Collection 125
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 522
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 271
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 298
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 370
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |522
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 245
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