Twice-Told Tales
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"It would be a matter of some difficulty to designate the best of these tales; we repeat that, without exception, they are beautiful. "Wakefield" is remarkable for the skill with which an old idea — a well-known incident — is worked up or discussed. A man of whims conceives the purpose of quitting his wife and residing incognito, for twenty years, in her immediate neighborhood. Something of this kind actually happened in London. The force of Mr. Hawthorne’s tale lies in the analysis of the motives which must or might have impelled the husband to such folly, in the first instance, with the possible causes of his perseverance. Upon this thesis a sketch of singular power has been constructed." --Edgar Allan Poe |
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Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the spring of 1837. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.
Contents
- "The Gray Champion"
- "Sunday at Home"
- "The Wedding-Knell"
- "The Minister's Black Veil"
- "The May-Pole of Merry Mount"
- "The Gentle Boy"
- "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe"
- "Little Annie's Ramble"
- "Wakefield"
- "A Rill from the Town-Pump"
- "The Great Carbuncle"
- "The Prophetic Pictures"
- "David Swan"
- "Sights from a Steeple"
- "The Hollow of the Three Hills"
- "The Toll-Gatherer's Day"
- "The Vision of the Fountain"
- "Fancy's Show Box"
- "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
- "Legends of the Province-House"
- I. "Howe's Masquerade"
- II. "Edward Randolph's Portrait"
- III. "Lady Eleanore's Mantle"
- IV. "Old Esther Dudley"
- "The Haunted Mind"
- "The Village Uncle"
- "The Ambitious Guest"
- "The Sister Years"
- "Snow-Flakes"
- "The Seven Vagabonds"
- "The White Old Maid"
- "Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure"
- "Chippings with a Chisel"
- "The Shaker Bridal"
- "Night Sketches"
- "Endicott and the Red Cross"
- "The Lily's Quest"
- "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"
- "Edward Fane's Rosebud"
- "The Threefold Destiny"