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Excerpt from Little Masterpieces: Dr. Heidergger's Experiment, the Birthmark, Ethan Brand, Wakefield, Drowne's Wooden Image, the Ambitious Guest, the Great Stone Face, the Gray Champion Hawthorne made three collections of his short stories and sketches: "Twice-Told Tales," "Mousses from an Old Manse," and "The Snow Image and Other Tales." The prefaces to these volumes express, with characteristic charm, the author's dissatisfaction with his handiwork. No critic has pointed out so clearly as Hawthorne himself has pointed out so clearly as Hawthorne himself the ineffectiveness of some of the "Twice-Told Tales"; he thinks that the "Mosses from an Old Manse" afford no solid basis for a literary reputation; and his comment upon the earlier and later work gathered indiscriminately into his final volume is that "the ripened autumnal fruit tastes but little better than the early windfalls." It must be remembered that the collections were made in desultory fashion. They included some work that Hawthorne had outgrown even when the first volume was published, such as elaborate exercises in description and fanciful allegories, excellently composed but without substance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

• Full title: Little Masterpieces
• Subtitle: Dr. Heidergger's Experiment, the Birthmark, Ethan Brand, Wakefield, Drowne's Wooden Image, the Ambitious Guest, the Great Stone Face, the Gray Champion (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• EAN: 9781331457107
• ISBN: 9781331457107
• ID: 09753731
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 286 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. July 2015

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