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Twice Told Tales

Twice Told Tales

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798888301012
Publisher: Bibliotech Pr
Published: Jan 6 2023
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first volume was published in the spring of 1837 and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.


About a week after the publication of the book, Hawthorne sent a copy to his classmate from Bowdoin College, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow had given a speech at their commencement calling for notable contributions to American literature. By this time, Longfellow was working at Harvard University and was becoming popular as a poet. Hawthorne wrote to him, We were not, it is true, so well acquainted at college, that I can plead an absolute right to inflict my 'twice-told' tediousness upon you; but I have often regretted that we were not better known. In his 14-page critique in the April issue of the North American Review, Longfellow praised the book as a work of genius. To this little book, Longfellow wrote, we would say, 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man of genius. For his review of the second edition, Longfellow noted that Hawthorne's writing is characterized by a large proportion of feminine elements, depth and tenderness of feeling, exceeding purity of mind. He referred to the collection's The Gentle Boy as on the whole, the finest thing he ever wrote. The two authors would eventually build a strong friendship.

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