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Original Title:	Twice-Told Tales
ISBN:	0375757880 (ISBN13: 9780375757884)
Edition Language:	English

Twice-Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 2639 Users | 109 Reviews

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Twice Told Tales is a two-volume collection of thirty-nine Hawthorne’s pieces, consisting of short fiction, allegories and narrative essays. Originally issued in 1837 and 1841 (nine years before the publication of his "breakout" work The Scarlet Letter), these volumes take their name from the fact that all the tales contained herein are “twice-told” in the sense that each had been published before, almost all anonymously, in journals of the time (many in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir.

Although only half of these stories are first-rate in execution, and little more than a third worthy the name of “classic”—I would include “The Gray Champion,” “The Wedding Knell,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Maypole of Merrymount”, “Wakefield,” “The Hollow of the Three Hills,” “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” Legends of the Province House (all four connected tales), “The Haunted Mind,” “The Ambitious Guest,” Peter Goldswaithe”s Treasure,” and “Endicott and the Red Cross”—still, the cumulative effect is more than the sum of the parts.

The greatest gift the reader receives by reading all of these tales—including the sometimes too superficial vignettes and too obvious allegories—is an intimate acquaintance with the young Hawthorne: brooding, reflective, with a profound interest in both colonial and revolutionary history, given to solitary walks and meditations, and yet warm-hearted and forever open to the rich variety of human life that New England town life had to offer.

Highly recommended.

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Title	:	Twice-Told Tales
Author	:	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Modern Library Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	October 9th 2001 by Modern Library (first published 1837)
Categories	:	Classics. Short Stories. Fiction. Horror

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Free download available at Project Gutenberg.You may read online at DailyLit.Contents:THE GRAY CHAMPIONSUNDAY AT HOMETHE WEDDING-KNELLTHE MINISTER'S BLACK VEILTHE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNTTHE GENTLE BOYMR. HIGGINBOTHAM'S CATASTROPHELITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLEWAKEFIELDA RILL FROM THE TOWN-PUMPTHE GREAT CARBUNCLETHE PROPHETIC PICTURESDAVID SWANSIGHTS FROM A STEEPLETHE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLSTHE TOLL-GATHERER'S DAYTHE VISION OF THE FOUNTAINFANCY'S SHOW-BOXDR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENTLEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE

These are really interesting stories. They all seem to be dark and full of unanswerable questions. I haven't read them all, but I intend to through the years.

"The Minister's Black Veil" is an exceptional, 5-star story. The other stories in this collection are pretty stultifying. I read through 34 stories, over 400 pages, hoping to find another such gem, but it was not to be. Having read 2 mind-numbing novels and these similarly dry stories, my acquaintance with Mr. Hawthorne is officially over.

I loved these short stories. This was the type of read that has stayed with me for a long time. The whole tone of the book is very New Englandy and as usual with Hawthorne his focus is on the moral struggle of early Americans, with a strange gothic twist - one of my favorite books ever.

First published in 1837, this collection includes many of Hawthornes early short stories, and it was interesting to see many of Hawthornes themes emerging in a nascent form (secret sin, shame, guilt, ambiguity, democracy, etc.)My favorites were: The May-Pole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy, Mr. Higginbothams Catastrophe, The Great Carbuncle, The Prophetic Pictures, David Swan, The Hollow of the Three Hills, Sights from a Steeple, Legends of the Province-House (4 connected stories), and Peter

Always loved Hawthorne, read this for a class though.

As precious a book to me as there is. Each story gently folds back layer by layer revealing a hidden truth or fear or hope or love at it's heart. Though written in the early 1800's, the sense and perspective is not strictly masculine. Hawthorne inhabits and coveys both genders with equal delicacy and strength. Can be read as simple entertainment or left on the tounge to discern deeper flavors than readily apparent. Such a master of the short story form that to write anything longer seems a waste