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 : The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (Signet Classics)

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780451530202
ISBN: 0451530209
Label: Signet Classics
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: August 01, 2006
Publisher: Signet Classics
Studio: Signet Classics




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Product Description:
The master storyteller-in short form

Famous for his novels, Hawthorne was first a short story writer. This collection includes his most powerful and penetrating stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil."



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - SKIP THE RAILROAD AND GET TO THE REAL STORIES
This is a nice pocket book edition of some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's greatest short stories. It's just the right size to carry around in your back pocket to read whenever you're stuck somewhere waiting for whatever it is.

Hawthorne, with his Puritan ancestry, was obsessed with the idea of sin and what human beings do to conceal them from the community at large. I guess, in a way, he was concerned with hypocrisy. Hawthorne believed in the Biblical saying that noone could cast the first ... Read More







 






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