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Informationen zum Autor Nathaniel Hawthorne Edited, and with an Introduction, by Newton Arvin Klappentext Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin.Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown," in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; "Rappaccini's Daughter," about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and "The Birthmark," in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human. Inhaltsverzeichnis Twice-Told Tales The Gray Champion The Minister's Black Veil The May-Pole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Wakefield The Great Carbuncle The Prophetic Pictures Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Lady Eleanore's Mantle Old Esther Dudley The Ambitious Guest The White Old Maid Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure Endicott and the Red Cross Mosses from an Old Manse The Birthmark Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's Daughter The Celestial Railroad Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Egotism; Or, the Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne's Wooden Image Earth's Holocaust The Artist of the Beautiful The Snow Image The Great Stone Face Ethan Brand The Wives of the Dead Tales and Sketches The Antique Ring Alice Doane's Appeal
