Selected Tales (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

566, [1] pp. A collection of short stories by the author best known for The Scarlet Letter, selected from Twice-Told Tales and The Snow-Image, with illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover and other artists. Includes: 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; The Prophetic Pictures; Sights from a Steeple; The Hollow of the Three Hills; Fancy's Show Box; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment; Legends of the Province House: I. Howe's Masquerade, II. Edward Randolph's Portrait, III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle; IV. Old Esther Dudley; The Ambitious Guest; The Seven Vagabonds; The White Old Maid; Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure; The Shaker Bridal; Endicott and the Red Cross; Roger Malvin's Burial; The Birth-Mark; Rappaccini's Daughter; The Celestial Railroad; Young Goodman Brown; Feathertop: A Moralized Legend; Egotism; or, the Bosom Serpent; The Artist of the Beautiful; The Great Stone Face; The Wives of the Dead; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; Ethan Brand.