Twice-Told Tales

This is the annotated edition including both volumes of the original book, a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, as well as an essay by Edgar Allan Poe on Hawthorne's tale-writing. Hawthorne's early stories were collected in 1837 and published under the title "e;Twice-Told Tales."e; They include two of the stories founded on early New England annals, -- "e;The Gray Champion,"e; based on a tradition of one of the judges of Charles I., and "e;The Maypole of Merry-Mount,"e; in which Endicott appears as the embodiment of the Puritan spirit. Besides these are the allegories "e;Fancy's Show Box,"e; "e;The Great Carbuncle,"e; and "e; The Prophetic Pictures ; "e; "e;The Hollow of the Three Hills,"e; one of the typical stories of witchcraft, foreshadowing some of his later and more powerful work; the curious study, "e;Wake?eld"e;, the popular "e;Rill from the Town Pump ;"e; the pretty' fantasy, "e; David Swan,"e; in which the lighthearted boy goes on his pilgrimage unconscious of the shadows of possibilities that have fallen across his sleeping face; the pathetic story of Quaker suffering, "e;The Gentle Boy ; "e; "e; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment,"e; -' touching a subject which recurs again in "e; Septimius Felton "e; and "e; The Dolliver Romance ;"e; and the light humor of "e;Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe,-"e; thus including almost every class of subject on which he afterward touched, though in all he rose to higher levels in his later work. '