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the time Hawthorness final collection of short fiction, The Snow Image, and Other, and Other Twice Told Taleswas published, the author had already turned his full attention to novels.
The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables had been published in the two previous years, and Hawthorne had already begun work on The Blithedale Romance.
In fact, only three works included here”MainStreet,” “The SnowImage,” and “The Great Stone Face,” “Ethan Brand”had been written since the publication of Hawthornes previous collection, Mosses from the Old Manse, the other twelve being previously uncollected pieces, some written twenty years before.
Apparently Hawthornes audience had moved on too: The Snow Image was the authors least profitable book,

Still, everything here is worthy a readers attention, “Old News”, “Old Ticonderoga”“A Bells Biography”, and “Main Street”are factfilled meditations in which Hawthorne uses an old place or artifact existing in the presenta hoard of ancient newspapers, a ruined fort, a local church bell, a diorama of Salem to summon up the atmosphere of the colonial and revolutionary past.
A few others are essentially successful tales slightly marred by their brevity or incompleteness“The Wives of the Dead”, “The Devil in Manuscript”, “Sylph Etherege”, “John Inglefields Thanksgiving”but each emanating from the center

of Hawthornes dark vision.
Add to these “Little Daffydowndilly”, a childs allegorical parable about the nature of work, and “The Canterbury Pilgrims”, a typical Hawthorne piece in which a group of desperate, downontheir luck people decide whether to take refuge in the celibate Shaker Community of Canterbury, New Hampshire, and you have the core of a diverse and diverting college.


In addition, Hawthorne offers us five masterpieces, three of which are newer works, “The SnowImage,” a chilling childrens story, demonstrateslike “The Birthmark,” “Rappacinis Daughter,” and “The Artist of the Beautiful” before ithow a sensible, wellmeaning man can destroy an irreplaceable, precious thing, “The Great Stone Face”, a melancholy allegory, present a few images of human greatness, and “Ethan Brand” embodies the classic Hawthorne theme of a passionate man grown cold through a clinical search for perfection.
The other two tales, though, are much earlier, and are just as good as the previous three, The Man of Adamant”, as its title indicates, shares a theme with “Ethan Brand,” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”written when Hawthorne was in his late twentiesis a tale of youthful disillusionment is as fine as anything Hawthorne has written, right up there with “Young Goodman Brown.
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Short version: not as good as “TwiceTold” or “Manse,” but well worth a look, Included in this volume of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic romances are "The SnowImage," "The Great Stone Face," "Main Street," "Ethan Brand," "A Bell's Biography," "Sylph Etherege," "The Canterbury Pilgrims," "Old News," "The Man of Adamant," "The Devil in Manuscript," "John Inglefield's Thanksgiving," "Old Ticonderoga," "The Wives of the Dead," "Little Daffydowndilly," and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux.
" This is a decent collection of short stories by Hawthorne, I did not think it was as good as “Twice Told Tales, ” Many of the stories are forgettable but some are wonderful, I particularly liked “the SnowImage” a sweet story, “The Great Stone Face” and “A Bells Biography, ” I would recommend this short book of stories, That the stories are brilliant, I have no doubt, However, I've read just one: Ethan Brand, I came across it while reading an essay on Ethan Frome which said that EB foreshadows EF, So I, rather sadly and unknowingly, had already read some spoilers, I plodded through the story nevertheless, charmed neither by its wordiness, long sentences, bizarrely dark atmosphere nor the obscure plot, I was watching out for signs of resemblance to Ethan Frome found very few, and at the end I realised I knew the climax all along and the whole chilling effect was lost on me.
God I hate people who give out spoilers without a warning,.A bit of an atypical Hawthorne batch though always that element of supernatural, or at least a step removed from the ordinary, in that the quality varies.
A couple of strong ones, the rest less memorable, The real question: what's up with this odd edition It's only about half of 'The Snow Image and Other TwiceTold Tales', . . and I don't see the rest available in ebook form except as individuals, It's a tough decision to round Hawthorne down, but this volume just isn't up to snuff it'd deserve better, intact, Compré este libro hace un par de años y tenía la ilusión de encontrarme en el una dimensión distinta del autor de la Letra escarlata.
La lectura de estos cuentos, todos ambientados en Nueva Inglaterra en el periodo de la Revolución la independencia de los Estados Unidos, más que revelarme otra faceta de Hawthorne me permitió profundizar en ese estilo barroco, capaz de retratar la subjetividad humana en toda su complejidad, violento, puritano y sarcástico que se ha constituido en uno de los grandes referentes de la literatura norteamericana.
Si bien algunos de los cuentos dejan un regusto a incompletitud que puede decepcionar al lector, cada uno en su especificidad desarrolla un universo singular en el que se proyectan distintas tonalidades históricas, personales y espirituales.
A medida que avancé me sorprendí sintiendo que cada cuento tenía algo que lo hacía provisionalmente mi favorito, Hay mucha magia, envidia, perplejidad, amor y dureza en todos sus personajes, divididos entre la severidad religiosa, los avatares de un mundo en construcción y la voracidad de sus propias pulsiones.
Me tomó tiempo terminarlo pero sin duda es un libro interesante, con muchas capas, muy de época y por el cual sigue vigente está extraña devoción que siento por Hawthorne.
Lovely short stories and beautifully written: The Snow ImageA Childish Miracle, The Great Stone Face Ethan Brand, The Canterbury Pilgrims, The Devil in Manuscript, and My KinsmanMajor Molineux Like Mosses From an Old Manse, it mixes slight and trivial though not unenjoyable stories, with a fair amount of decent stories, and a handful of tremendous ones.
His best stuff In this collection: "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," "Ethan Brand," "Sylph Etherege," "The Wives of the Dead" crackles with obscuring shadows and veils, sly fireside devilishness, sharp irony and sometimes a disquieting ambiguity.
I probably overuse the term "disquiet" or "disquieting" when praising a work, but I think the best works often have a strangeness and especially something troubling about them.
They are an incantation to reveal, .