Three short pieces. In the first, Hawthorne describes approaching Niagara with a pilgrim’s dread and finding the falls nothing like what he had imagined. The Antique Ring tells the history of a jewel said to have been given by Queen Elizabeth to Essex, and Graves and Goblins is a ghost’s-eye reverie on the dead.
Minor Hawthorne pieces that show his descriptive gift and his love of the uncanny. Download the free EPUB.