The Snow-Image and Other Twice Told Tales: Complete and Annotated (English Edition)

This is a collection of stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne between the years of 1804 and 1864. Hawthorne was a wonderful writer whose works always made a statement, pointing out the ironic parallels of human nature behind the guise of classic storytelling. This unique version includes a Preface written in letter form to Horatio Bridge, ESQ., The Snow-Image, The Great Stone Face, Main-Street, Ethan Brand, A Bell’s Biography, Sylph Etherege, The Canterbury Pilgrims, Old News I, Old News II, Old News III, The Man of Adamant, The Devil in Manuscript, John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving, Old Ticonderoga, The Wives of the Dead, Little Daffydowndilly, and My Kinsman, Major Molineux. It is also annotated to include a glossary of Old English words no longer found in modern dictionaries but commonly used by Hawthorne, and a biography on both the author and his wife: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.