PDF Books in Historical Fiction
The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Great Stone Face is a short story published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The story reappeared in a full-length book, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields in 1852. It has since been republished and anthologized many times. Hawthorne sets the scene in a rural valley located in an unnamed U.S. stat..
The Haunted Mind
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Haunted Mind is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, 1835. It was later included in Volume Two of Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837. In "The Haunted Mind", Hawthorne described an intermediate space between sleeping and waking. The story begi..
Little Masterpieces
by Nathaniel HawthorneHawthorne made three collections of his short stories and sketches: Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Snow Image and Other Tales. The prefaces to these volumes express, with characteristic charm, the author's dissatisfaction with his handiwork. No critic has pointed out so clearly as Hawthorne himself the ineffectiveness of some o..
The Man of Adamant
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Man of Adamant is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1837 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich. It later appeared in Hawthorne's final collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields.Richard ..
The Snow Image
by Nathaniel HawthorneSome of Nathaniel Hawthorne's early stories for children which appeared initially in juvenile magazines ended up in collections of stories for adults. Such was the case with "Little Annie's Ramble," which appeared first in Youth's Keepsake and then, a few years later, in the first edition of Twice-Told Tales. Other stories took the reverse journey...
Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches
by Nathaniel HawthorneOur Old Home: A Series of English Sketches is a travel literature work by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderable disappointment to me had you withheld it; for I have long desired to connect your name with some book of mine, in commem..
The Wives of the Dead
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Wives of the Dead is an 1832 short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a much-beloved pioneer of early American literature. First published in the annual periodical The Token and later included in Hawthorne’s 1852 collection, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, “The Wives of the Dead” concerns two sisters-in-law who become widows after their ..
Passages from the American Notebooks
by Nathaniel HawthornePassages from the English Notebooks is a collection of travel writing by Nathaniel Hawthorne written in two volumes and this book contains both volumes in one edition. It seems justly due to Mr. Hawthorne that the occasion of any portion of his private journals being brought before the Public should be made known, since they were originally designe..