Nathaniel Hawthorne s status as an artist rests as much on The Scarlet Letter as on his short fictions. It is both telling and appropriate that academic research in the short story should be dated to Mary Rohrberger s study Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story, published in 1966. The present volume adds to this discourse with contributions by Paulina Ambrozy, Katarzyna Kuczma, Joseph Kuhn, David Malcolm, Marek Paryz, Janusz Semrau, Pawel Stachura, and Marek Wilczynski. Represented here are some of the most widely-known stories, such as -My Kinsman, Major Molineux-, -Wakefield-,...
Nathaniel Hawthorne s status as an artist rests as much on The Scarlet Letter as on his short fictions. It is both telling and appropriate that...