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The Shaker Bridal

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1842
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A regret-filled sketch of two elderly Shakers (a sect that forbade sexual intercourse) who might once have wed.

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

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |33
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 469
1937 Cover The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 1010
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 254
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 555
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 300
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 327
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 405
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |555
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 268
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