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The Hawthorne Treasury: Complete Novels and Selected Tales (Modern Library)

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It's not easy finding an edition that compiles all of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, but 'The Hawthorne Treasury" comes pretty close. It has all of Hawthorne's complete novels, i.e. Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun and 33 stories:

From Twice-Told Tales:
The Gray Champion, The Wedding Knell, The Minister's Black Veil,The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy,Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Wakefield, The Great Carbuncle, David Swan, The Hollow of the Three Hills, Dr Heidegger's Experiment, Legends of the Province House, The Ambitious Guest, Peter Goldthwaite's treasure, The Shaker Bridal, Endicott and the Red Cross.

From Mosses from an Old Manse:
The Birthmark, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, Mrs Bullfrog, The Celestial Railroad, The Procession of Life, Feathertop:A Moralized Legend, Egotism or The Bosom Serpent, Drowne's Wooden Image, Roger Malvin's Burial, The Artist of the Beautiful

From The Snow-Image and other Twice-Told Tales:
The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle, The Great Stone Face, Ethan Brand, The Canterbury Pilgrims, The Devil in Manuscript, My Kinsman: Major Molineaux

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a consummate storyteller and his stories abound with a sense of place, atmosphere and social commentary. This is an edition worth owning for those seeking a good representation of his works bound in a single volume [all of his novels are collected here but only 33 of his short stories].

An edition to own. Here are the best samples of a great writer, second only to Melville in the American literary pantheon.

An edition to own of a great writer, second only to Melville in the American literary pantheon.