Bliss Perry chose these pieces from Hawthorne’s three story collections and introduces them with a short essay on his craft. Here are the scientist who tries to erase a flaw from his wife’s cheek, the old friends offered water from the Fountain of Youth, the lime-burner Ethan Brand in search of the Unpardonable Sin, and the London husband who leaves home for twenty years.
A compact introduction to the moral fables and New England shadows that shaped American short fiction. Download the free EPUB.