"Little Masterpieces" from Nathaniel Hawthorne. American novelist and short story writer (1804-1864). DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT THE BIRTHMARK ETHAN BRAND WAKEFIELD DROWNE'S WOODEN IMAGE THE AMBITIOUS GUEST THE GREAT STONE FACE THE GRAY CHAMPION

-El anciano campeon -El entierro de Roger Malvin -El experimento del doctor Heidegger -El joven Goodman Brown -El May-Pole de Merry Mount -Feathertop -Leyendas de la Casa Provincial I. La mascarada de Howe II. El retrato de Edward Randolph

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One of the best ghost short stories, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Extract: In the house where I was born, there used to be an old woman crouching all day long over the kitchen fire, with her elbows on her knees and her feet in the ashes. Once in a while she took a turn at the spit, and she never lacked a coarse gray stocking in her lap, the foot about half finished; it tapered away with her own waning life, and she knit the toe-stitch on the day of her death.

Little Masterpieces is a collection of eight short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment The Birthmark Ethan Brand Wakefield Drowne's Wooden Image The Ambitious Guest The Great Stone Face The Gray Champion Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist writing centers on New England, many featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration and centering on the inherent evil and sin of humanity.

Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories, collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's daughter -- Mrs. Bullfrog -- The celestial railroad -- The procession of life -- Feathertop: a moralized legend -- Egotism; or, the bosom serpent -- Drowne's wooden image -- Roger Malvin's burial -- The artist of the beautiful.

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) is a children's book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he retells several Greek myths. It was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story, the frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified from the original myths. "Midas' Daughter Turned to Gold" by Walter Crane, illustrating the Midas myth...

Nathaniel Hawthorne born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne" in order to hide this relation. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. He published his first work in 1828, the...