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Twice Told Tales
Paperback
Series: Mint Editions (Short Story Collections and Anthologies)
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9781513264882
Publisher: Mint Ed
Published: Sep 22 2020
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes.- Edgar Allan Poe
To this little book we would say 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man of genius.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales is a spectacularly rich collection of thirty-nine penetrating stories. With a rare purity of style, these tales chronicle both familiar life and haunted specters through a lens of subtle mysticism and deep melancholy. The title is a nod to Shakespeare's line Life is a tedious as a twice-told tale/Vexing the ear of a drowsy man.; it furthermore is Hawthorne's acknowledgment that these stories all had been previously published in various magazines and newspapers of the day.
Never one to shy from exploring themes of darkness and morality, these stories beg for repeated readings in order to fully grasp their true richness; yet, there is a sheer enjoyment in the subtle, truly imaginative beauty in each one. Amongst this collection are the tales The Ambitious Guest, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry Mount, The Hollow of Three Hills, The Haunted Mind, and Dr. Heidegger's Experiment which was adapted into the 1963 Horror Film starring Vincent Price.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twice-Told Tales is both modern and readable.
Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.
With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
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