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Endicott and the Red Cross

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1842
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"'Endicott and the Red Cross'—as close to pure history as Hawthorne ever comes in his tales and vignettes—tells us of the first recorded defiance of an overreaching English King by a prominent New England Citizen: the desecration of the British red-cross flag by John Endicott, the Governor of Massachusetts, who saw in it the symbol of a creeping papism." --Bill Kerwin

First published in the Salem Gazette, 1 November 1837.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1842 Twice-Told Tales James Munroe Collection |35
1907 Cover Twice-Told Tales Houghton Mifflin Collection 485
1937 Cover The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Modern Library Omnibus 1014
1962 Cover Hawthorne's Short Stories Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |15
1964 Classic American Short Stories Barron's Educational Series Anthology 70
1965 Cover Twice-Told Tales Airmont Books Collection 263
1980 Cover The Scarlet Letter Signet Classic / New American Library Novel 247
1982 Cover Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus 542
1987 Cover Selected Tales and Sketches Penguin Books (US) Collection 217
October 1989 Cover Twice-Told Tales Reader's Digest Collection 306
2001 Cover Twice-Told Tales Modern Library Collection 339
October 2004 Twice-Told Tales Project Gutenberg Collection 419
2007 Tales and Sketches The Library of America Omnibus |542
August 2010 Cover Twice-Told Tales Gray Rabbit Publications Collection 278