Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; McIntosh, James

• ISBN13: 9780393954265
• ISBN10: 0393954269
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-02-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is comprised of twenty-one of Hawthorne's most noteworthy tales and sketches, reprinted from the best collections available. Each tale is fully annotated.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Texts of the Tales	1	(264)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	3	(14)
Roger Malvin's Burial	17	(15)
The Gentle Boy	32	(23)
The Haunted Mind	55	(3)
The Gray Champion	58	(7)
Young Goodman Brown	65	(10)
Wakefield	75	(7)
The Ambitious Guest	82	(6)
The May-Pole of Merry Mount	88	(9)
The Minister's Black Veil	97	(10)
The Man of Adamant	107	(6)
Endicott and the Red Cross	113	(5)
The Birthmark	118	(13)
The Celestial Rail-road	131	(13)
Earth's Holocaust	144	(15)
The Artist of the Beautiful	159	(18)
Drowne's Wooden Image	177	(9)
Rappaccini's Daughter	186	(23)
Main-street	209	(22)
Ethan Brand	231	(12)
Feathertop	243	(15)
A Note on the Text	258	(2)
Textual Variants	260	(2)
Hawthorne's Revisions of ``The Gentle Boy''	262	(3)
The Author on His Work	265	(58)
Prefaces	267	(27)
The Old Manse	268	(21)
Preface to the 1851 Edition of Twice-told Tales	289	(3)
Preface to The Snow Image	292	(2)
Letters	294	(15)
To Elizabeth C. Hathorne, March 13, 1821	295	(1)
To H. W. Longfellow, June 4, 1837	296	(2)
To H. W. Longfellow, June 19, 1837	298	(1)
To H. W. Longfellow, January 12, 1839	299	(1)
To Sophia Peabody, October 4, 1840	300	(2)
To G. S. Hillard, July 16, 1841	302	(1)
To Margaret Fuller, August 25, 1842	302	(2)
To Margaret Fuller, February 1, 1843	304	(2)
To E. A. Duyckinck, July 1, 1845	306	(1)
To E. A. Duyckinck, April 15, 1846	306	(1)
To R. W. Griswold, December 15, 1851	307	(1)
To James T. Fields, April 13, 1854	308	(1)
From The American Notebooks	309	(14)
Criticism	323	(132)
Early Criticism	325	(32)
[Hawthorne Unveiled]	327	(1)
Park Benjamin
Hawthorne's Twice-told Tales	328	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[Twice-told Tales, Second Edition]	331	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Tale-Writing---Nathaniel Hawthorne	332	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
[Mosses from an Old Manse]	335	(1)
Henry F. Chorley
[Hawthorne]	336	(1)
James Russell Lowell
Hawthorne and His Mosses	337	(13)
Herman Melville
Early Writings	350	(7)
Henry James
Modern Criticism	357	(98)
Hawthorne as Poet	358	(13)
Q. D. Leavis
Hawthorne and the Puritan Revolution of 1776	371	(9)
John P. McWilliams, Jr.
The Logic of Compulsion	380	(9)
Frederick C. Crews
Visible Sanctity and Specter Evidence: The Moral World of Hawthorne's ``Young Goodman Brown''	389	(16)
Michael J. Colacuricio
Nathaniel Hawthorne	405	(10)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Self Outside Itself: ``Wakefield'' and ``The Ambitious Guest''	415	(6)
Sharon Cameron
Hawthorne's ``The Birthmark'' : Science as Religion	421	(6)
Robert B. Heilman
[The Tales of the Manse Period]	427	(5)
Nina Baym
[``Ethan Brand'']	432	(7)
Leo Marx
A Feathertop Kit	439	(16)
John W. Wright
Selected Bibliography	455	(6)
Chronology	461