Twice-Told Tales

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Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores moral and psychological themes through allegorical and Gothic narratives.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
adaptationType horror anthology film
author Nathaniel Hawthorne
containsWork A Rill from the Town-Pump
David Swan
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent
Fancy’s Show-Box
Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe
Sights from a Steeple
Sunday at Home
The Ambitious Guest
The Celestial Railroad
The Christmas Banquet
The Devil in Manuscript
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy: A Thrice-Told Tale
The Gray Champion
The Great Carbuncle
The Hollow of the Three Hills
The Man of Adamant
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
The Minister’s Black Veil
The Minister’s Black Veil: A Parable
The New Adam and Eve
The Prophetic Pictures
The Seven Vagabonds
The Toll-Gatherer’s Day
The Village Uncle
The Vision of the Fountain
The Wedding-Knell
The White Old Maid
The Wives of the Dead
Wakefield
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPublicationYear 1837
genre Gothic fiction
allegorical fiction
short stories
hasAdaptation Twice-Told Tales (1963 film)
hasPrefaceBy Nathaniel Hawthorne
language English
literaryMovement American Romanticism
Dark Romanticism
notableCritic Edgar Allan Poe
numberOfVolumes 2
placeOfPublication Boston
publisher American Stationers Company
Hilliard, Gray & Co.
secondEditionYear 1842
theme Puritanism
guilt
morality
psychological conflict
religion
sin

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