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Twice-Told Tales (The World's Best Reading)
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Fine
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover_vinyl spine. Collectible - Fine. Lars Hokanson. 6.25"x9.25". 335 pages. 2nd printing. Navy cloth boards. Hawthorne's silhouette and letters in gilt on front w/blind stamped ivy. Black vinyl spine w/gilt letters. Union gray paste downs. Afterwords by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. USED GIFT QUALITY. Twice-Told Tales, originally published in 1837 & 1842 and revised and republished by Hawthorne in 1851 (the edition reproduced here), is the most famous collection of Hawthorne's stories. All of Hawthorne's great gifts - and the features that make him not only one of the greatest but one of the most contemporary American authors, are on full display here. Insert from Reader's Digest The World's Best Reading which has a brief bio on Hawthorne is included.
Synopsis
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of short stories, most of which are infused with a very New England gothic tone. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals. The title, Twice-Told Tales , was drawn from William Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John (Act 3, scene 4): "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." The piece is composed of sketches and tales, mostly allegories and moralistic fantasies including "The Gray Champion," "The Wedding Knell," "The Minister's Black Veil," "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe," "Wakefield," "The Great Carbuncle," "The Prophetic Pictures," "The Hollow of the Three Hills," "Fancy's Show Box," and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment."
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13471
- Title
- Twice-Told Tales (The World's Best Reading)
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
- Illustrator
- Lars Hokanson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_vinyl spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest
- Place of Publication
- Pleasantville
- Date Published
- 1989
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