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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 Whole History of Grandfather's Chair
by Nathaniel HawthorneIN writing this ponderous tome, the author’s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thre..
The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Prophetic Pictures is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In "The Prophetic Pictures," the evil soul that the master painter has seen in the happy young bridegroom finally makes its way through the picture and onto the face itself. In story after story the given element, the central and unifying element, is what moves and stirs within us, the..
Biographical Stories
by Nathaniel HawthorneBiographical Stories for Children is a collection short biographical tales of historical figures including Queen Christina, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Johnson, Sir Isaac Newton and Benjamin West. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. Hawthorne's works belong to romanticism or, more specif..
The Miraculous Pitcher
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Miraculous Pitcher is a Short Story About Old Philemon and His Old Wife Baucis. This is one of the popular Greek myths about old Philemon and his old wife Baucis . It is adapted here by Nathaniel Hawthorne for children...
Other Tales and Sketches
by Nathaniel HawthorneOther Tales and Sketches is a ghost stories collection written by Nathaniel Hawthorne for young readers. There are three stories in this collection as below:My Visit To NiagaraThe Antique RingGraves And Goblins..
The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe New Adam and Eve is a collection of short stories From Mosses from an Old Manse written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ExcerptsIn the energy of new life it appears no such impracticable feat to climb into the sky. But they have already received a woful lesson, which may finally go far towards reducing them to the level of the departed race, when they ..
The Paradise of Children
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Paradise of Children is a short story collection written for young readers by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Paradise of Children is Hawthorne's tale about the wickedly curious Pandora, who shouldn't have looked inside that box! Published in the 1920 collection, Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls, edited by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey...