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 The Snow-Image
- and Other Stories of the
Supernatural
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- by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Introduction by Richard Dalby
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- This
volume presents the best of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short
supernatural fiction in thirty-three stories from 'The
Hollow of the Three Hills' (1830) to 'The Ghost of Doctor
Harris' (1856). One of the giants of nineteenth-century
American literature-author of the classic novel The
Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne was brought up in Puritan New
England. His strictly supervised childhood and vivid
imagination created his lifelong fixation with the
'unpardonable sin', the darkness of the human mind and
the uncertain shadowlands of the soul. Hawthorne's
reputation as a short story writer was cemented with the
publication of Twice-Told Tales in March 1837.
Edgar Allan Poe acclaimed an expanded, 1842 edition of
the book as belonging 'to the highest region of Art', and
added: 'Mr Hawthorne's distinctive trait is invention,
creation, imagination, originality-a trait which, in the
literature of fiction, is positively worth all the rest.
Mr Hawthorne is original at all points.'
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- The
Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural
is a sewn hardback book of 417+ xvi pages
with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 300 copies. £32.50/$65 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-09-7
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- Contents: 'Introduction' by Richard
Dalby, 'The Hollow of the Three Hills', 'Roger Malvin's
Burial', 'Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe', 'The Grey
Champion', 'Young Goodman Brown', ''The White Old Maid',
'Alice Doane's Appeal', 'A Visit to the Clerk of the
Weather', 'The Minister's Black Veil', 'Dr Heidegger's
Experiment', 'Fancy's Show Box', ''The Great Carbuncle',
'The Prophetic Pictures', 'The Man of Adamant', 'The
Sister Years', 'Edward Randolph's Portrait', 'Howe's
Masquerade', 'Lady Eleanore's Mantle', 'A Select Party',
'A Virtuoso's Collection', 'The Antique Ring', 'The Hall
of Fantasy', 'The New Adam and Eve', 'The Birthmark',
'Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent', 'The Celestial
Railroad', 'The Christmas Banquet', 'Rappaccini's
Daughter', 'P's Correspondence', 'Ethan Brand', 'The
Snow-Image', 'Feathertop', 'The Ghost of Doctor
Harris'.
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27th October 2008
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