Twice-Told Tales

A young Puritan leaves his wife Faith for one night to walk into the forest, where he finds his whole village at a witches' meeting. Hawthorne's most read story, short enough for a single sitting.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Written at the Concord house where Emerson once lived, this collection holds Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, Rappaccini's Daughter and Earth's Holocaust. The book that made Melville call Hawthorne a genius.

Nathaniel Hawthorne