On Thanksgiving night an old man calls for another log on the hearth, oak chips from a wrecked ship, and imagines his cottage glowing across the bay to Nahant. In this reverie from Twice-Told Tales, a solitary dreamer recalls how love for Susan, a fisherman’s daughter, drew him out of his lonely cavern of fancy into a warm village life.
A gentle, autumnal Hawthorne sketch of New England coastal life. Download the free EPUB.