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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 Gorgon's Head
by Nathaniel HawthorneThe author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children.In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view. A great freedom of treatment was necessary to his plan; but it will be observed by every one who att..
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 ..
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..
Red Nails
by Robert E. HowardWEIRD TALES published a story called "The Phoenix on the Sword," built around a barbarian adventurer named Conan, who had become king of a country by sheer force of valor and brute strength. The author of that story was Robert E. Howard, who was already a favorite with the readers of this magazine for his stories of Solomon Kane, the dour English P..
Little Novels
by Wilkie CollinsLittle Novels (1887) is a collection of stories by Wilkie Collins about love, marriage, and the social barriers of class and money. Some deal with crime and the supernatural. The collection contains stories like Mrs Zant and the Ghost, a supernatural story, Mr Policeman and the Cook, a story of revenge and murder, and Miss Mina and the Groom.Unlike..
Space-Trap At Banya Tor
by W.J. MatthewsSpace-Trap At Banya Tor, by W. J. Matthews. Exciting entertainment, these telecasts of dashing pirates, gorgeous victims and the always stupid Space Patrol, but Jeff Thorne, famed Derelict of Mars, was grimly bent on stopping them—in all their ghastly reality!.Wheelwright was not impressed. "You know best, then I know him as a sot who stumbled on a..