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Chippings with a Chisel

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1842
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A tombstone-carver reflects on mortality and life's legacies.

First published (as by "the author of Twice-Told Tales") in The Democratic Review, September 1838.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |32
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 455
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 246
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 616
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 290
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 317
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 393
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |616
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 260