Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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We also list tales and sketches in the order of first magazine publication

• Fanshawe: A Tale (anonymous, 1828)
• The Story Teller (unpublished 1834?, manuscript lost, but possible order reconstructed by Weber [Webe89 183-5 ]:)
• Opening Frame: Departure and First Adventures of the Wandering Storyteller
• At Home
• A Flight in the Fog
• A Fellow-Traveller
• The Village Theatre [A]
• Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
• The Village Theatre [B]
• In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
• The Notch [A]
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Notch [B]
• Our Evening Party Among the Mountains
• The Great Carbuncle
• Along the Shores of Lake Champlain
• The Inland Port
• Old Ticonderoga
• On the Erie Canal
• The Canal-Boat [A]
• A Rill from the Town-Pump
• The Canal-Boat [B]
• Wakefield
• The Canal-Boat [C]
• En Route to Niagara
• An Ontario Steam-Boat
• Rochester [A]
• The Old Maid in the Winding Sheet (The White Old Maid)
• Rochester [B]
• My Visit to Niagara [A]
• Fragments from the Journal [fragment 4]
• The Vision of the Fountain
• My Visit to Niagara [B]
• Fragments from the Journal [fragment 3]
• The Last Stages and the Return Home
• A Night Scene
• Young Goodman Brown
• The Canterbury Pilgrims
• My Home Return
• The Lonely Years in the Native Village
• Alice Doane's Appeal
• Little Annie's Ramble
• Night Sketches: Beneath an Umbrella
• The Mermaid (The Village Uncle)
• The Haunted Mind
• Graves and Goblins
• Closing Frame: The Death of the Storyteller and the Obituary of His Friend
• The Devil in Manuscript
• Fragments from the Journal...
• Uncollected stories or sketches in magazines (1830-1844)
• Sir William Phips (1830)
• Mrs. Hutchinson (1830)
• An Old Woman's Tale (1830)
• Dr. Bullivant (1831)
• The Haunted Quack (1831)
• Graves and Goblins (?authorship)
• Sir William Pepperell (1833)
• Alice Doane's Appeal (1835)
• My Visit to Niagara (1835)
• A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather (1836)
• Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (1837)
• Thomas Green Fessenden (1838)
• Time's Portraiture (1838)
• Jonathan Cilley (1838)
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair, complete in three parts (1840)
• The Antique Ring (1843)
• A Good Man's Miracle (1844)
• A Book of Autographs (1844)
• http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/ttt.htmlTwice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)
• Volume 1, Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)
• Preface (1851)
• The Gray Champion (1835, 1837)
• Sunday at Home (1837)
• The Wedding-Knell (1836, 1837)
• The Minister's Black Veil (1836, 1837)
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount (1836, 1837)
• The Gentle Boy (1832, 1837)
• Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe (1834, 1837)
• Little Annie's Ramble (1835, 1837)
• Wakefield (1835, 1837)
• A Rill from the Town-Pump (1835, 1837)
• The Great Carbuncle (1837)
• The Prophetic Pictures (1837)
• David Swan (1837)
• Sights from a Steeple (1831, 1837)
• The Hollow of the Three Hills (1830, 1837)
• The Toll-Gatherer's Day (1837, 1842)
• The Vision of the Fountain (1835, 1837)
• Fancy's Show Box (1837)
• Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (1837)
• Volume 2, Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)
• Legends of the Province House
• I. Howe's Masquerade (1838, 1842) or illustrated
• II. Edward Randolph's Portrait (1838, 1842)
• III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle (1838, 1842)
• IV. Old Esther Dudley (1839, 1842)
• The Haunted Mind (1835, 1842)
• The Village Uncle (1835, 1842)
• The Ambitious Guest (1835, 1842)
• The Sister Years (1835, 1842)
• Snow-Flakes (1838, 1842)
• The Seven Vagabonds (1833, 1842)
• The White Old Maid (1835, 1842)
• Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure (1838, 1842)
• Chippings with a Chisel (1838, 1842)
• The Shaker Bridal (1838, 1842)
• Night Sketches (1838, 1842)
• Endicott and the Red Cross (1838, 1842)
• The Lily's Quest (1839, 1842)
• Foot-prints on the Sea-shore (1838, 1842)
• Edward Fane's Rosebud (1837, 1842)
• The Threefold Destiny (1838, 1842)
• Mosses from an Old Manse (1846, 1854)
• The Old Manse (1846)
• The Birth-mark (1843, 1846)
• A Select Party (1844, 1846)
• Young Goodman Brown (1835, 1846)
• Rappaccini's Daughter (1844, 1846)
• Mrs. Bullfrog (1837, 1846)
• Fire-Worship (1843, 1846)
• Buds and Bird-Voices (1843, 1846)
• Monsieur du Miroir (1837, 1846)
• The Hall of Fantasy (1843, 1846)
• The Celestial Rail-road (1843, 1846)
• The Procession of Life (1843, 1846)
• Feathertop (1852, 1854)
• The New Adam and Eve (1843, 1846)
• Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent (1843, 1846)
• The Christmas Banquet (1844, 1846)
• Drowne's Wooden Image (1844, 1846)
• The Intelligence Office (1844, 1846)
• Roger Malvin's Burial (1832, 1846)
• P.'s Correspondence (1845, 1846)
• Earth's Holocaust (1844, 1846)
• Passages from a Relinquished Work (1834, 1854)
• Sketches from Memory (1835, 1854)
• The Old Apple-Dealer (1843, 1846)
• The Artist of the Beautiful (1844, 1846)
• A Virtuoso's Collection (1842, 1846)
• http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/sl.htmlThe Scarlet Letter (1850)
• Preface..............to the Second Edition
• Introduction...........The Custom House

1. Chapter I.................The Prison-Door
2. Chapter II................The Market-Place
3. Chapter III...............The Recognition
4. Chapter IV..............The Interview
5. Chapter V...............Hester at Her Needle
6. Chapter VI..............Pearl
7. Chapter VII..............The Governor's Hall
8. Chapter VIII.............The Elf-Child and the Minister
9. Chapter IX.............The Leech
10. Chapter X...............The Leech and His Patient
11. Chapter XI..............The Interior of a Heart
12. Chapter XII.............The Minister's Vigil
13. Chapter XIII..........Another View of Hester
14. Chapter XIV............Hester and the Physician
15. Chapter XV............Hester and Pearl
16. Chapter XVI...........A Forest Walk
17. Chapter XVII...........The Pastor and His Parishioner
18. Chapter XVIII..........A Flood of Sunshine
19. Chapter XIX............The Child at the Brook-Side
20. Chapter XX.............The Minister in a Maze
21. Chapter XXI............The New England Holiday
22. Chapter XXII...........The Procession
23. Chapter XXIII..........The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
24. Chapter XXIV...........Conclusion

• http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/sg.htmlThe House of the Seven Gables (1851)
• Preface

1. I. The Old Pyncheon
2. II. The Little Shop-Window
3. III. The First Customer
4. IV. A Day benind the Counter
5. V. May and November
6. VI. Maule's Well
7. VII. The Guest
8. VIII. The Pyncheon of To-day
9. IX. Clifford and Phoebe
10. X. The Pyncheon-Garden
11. XI. The Arched Window
12. XII. The Daguerreotypist
13. XIII. Alice Pyncheon
14. XIV. Phoebe's Good Bye
15. XV. The Scowl and Smile
16. XVI. Clifford's Chamber
17. XVII. The Flight of Two Owls
18. XVIII. Governor Pyncheon
19. XIX. Alice's Posies
20. XX. The Flower of Eden
21. XXI. The Departure

• A http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/wbpf.htmlWonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
• Preface
• Tanglewood Porch: Introductory to "The Gorgon's Head"
• The Gorgon's Head
• Tanglewood Porch: After the Story
• Shadow Brook: Introductory to "The Golden Touch"
• The Golden Touch
• Shadow Brook: After the Story
• Tanglewood Play-Room: Introductory to "The Paradise of Children"
• The Paradise of Children
• Tanglewood Play-Room: After the Story
• Tanglewood Fireside: Introductory to "The Three Golden Apples"
• The Three Golden Apples
• Tanglewood Fireside: After the Story
• The Hill-Side: Introductory to "The Miraculous Pitcher"
• The Miraculous Pitcher
• The Hill-Side: After the Story
• Bald Summit: Introductory to "The Chimæra"
• The Chimæra
• Bald Summit: After the Story
• The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
• Preface (1852)
• The Snow-Image (1850, 1852)
• The Great Stone Face (1850, 1852)
• Main-street (1849, 1852)
• Ethan Brand (1850, 1852)
• A Bell's Biography (1837, 1852)
• Sylph Etherege (1838, 1852)
• The Canterbury Pilgrims (1833, 1852)
• Old News (1835, 1852)
• Old News - II. The Old French War
• Old News - III. The Old Tory
• The Man of Adamant (1837, 1852)
• The Devil in Manuscript (1835, 1852)
• John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (1840, 1852)
• Old Ticonderoga (1836, 1852)
• The Wives of the Dead (1832, 1852)
• Little Daffydowndilly (1843, 1852)
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux (1832, 1852)
• The http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/br.htmlBlithedale Romance (1852)
• Preface

1. I. Old Moodie
2. II. Blithedale
3. III. A Knot of Dreamers
4. IV. The Supper-Table
5. V. Until Bedtime
6. VI. Coverdale's Sick-Chamber
7. VII. The Convalescent
8. VIII. A Modern Arcadia
9. IX. Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla
10. X. A Visitor from Town
11. XI. The Wood-Path
12. XII. Coverdale's Hermitage
13. XIII. Zenobia's Legend
14. XIV. Eliot's Pulpit
15. XV. A Crisis
16. XVI. Leave-Takings
17. XVII. The Hotel
18. XVIII. The Boarding-House
19. XIX. Zenobia's Drawing-Room
20. XX. They Vanish
21. XXI. An Old Acquaintance
22. XXII. Fauntleroy
23. XXIII. A Village-Hall
24. XXIV. The Masqueraders
25. XXV. The Three Together
26. XXVI. Zenobia and Coverdale
27. XXVII. Midnight
28. XXVIII. Blithedale-Pasture
29. XXIX. Miles Coverdale's Confession

• The Life of Franklin Pierce (1852)
• Frontispiece (engraving of Franklin Pierce)
• Preface

1. I. His Parentage and Early Life
2. II. His Services in the State and National Legislatures
3. III. His Success at the Bar
4. IV. The Mexican War--His Journal of the March from Vera Cruz
5. V. His Services in the Valley of Mexico
6. VI. The Compromise and Other Matters
7. VII. His Nomination for the Presidency
8. Notes

• http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/tt.htmlTanglewood Tales (1853)
• The Wayside: Introductory

1. I. The Minotaur
2. II. The Pygmies
3. III. The Dragon's Teeth
4. IV. Circe's Palace
5. V. The Pomegranate-Seeds
6. VI. The Golden Fleece

• The Marble Faun; or, the Romance of Monte Beni (1860)
• Preface

1. I. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello
2. II. The Faun
3. III. Subterranean Reminiscences
4. IV. The Spectre of the Catacomb
5. V. Miriam's Studio
6. VI. The Virgin's Shrine
7. VII. Beatrice
8. VIII. The Suburban Villa
9. IX. The Faun and Nymph
10. X. The Sylvan Dance
11. XI. Fragmentary Sentences
12. XII. A Stroll on the Pincian
13. XIII. A Sculptor's Studio
14. XIV. Cleopatra
15. XV. An Aesthetic Company
16. XVI. A Moonlight Ramble
17. XVII. Miriam's Trouble
18. XVIII. On the Edge of a Precipice
19. XIX. The Faun's Transformation
20. XX. The Burial Chaunt
21. XXI. The Dead Capuchin
22. XXII. The Medici Garden
23. XXIII. Miriam and Hilda
24. XXIV. The Tower among the Apennines
25. XXV. Sunshine
26. XXVI. The Pedigree of Monte Beni
27. XXVII. Myths
28. XXVIII. The Owl-Tower
29. XXIX. On the Battlements
30. XXX. Donatello's Bust
31. XXXI. The Marble Saloon
32. XXXII. Scenes by the Way
33. XXXIII. Pictured Windows
34. XXXIV. Market-Day in Perugia
35. XXXV. The Bronze Pontiff's Benediction
36. XXXVI. Hilda's Tower
37. XXXVII. The Emptiness of Picture-Galleries
38. XXXVIII. Altars and Incense
39. XXXIX. The World's Cathedral
40. XL. Hilda and a Friend
41. XLI. Snow-Drops and Maidenly Delights
42. XLII. Reminiscences of Miriam
43. XLIII. The Extinction of a Lamp
44. XLIV. The Deserted Shrine
45. XLV. The Flight of Hilda's Doves
46. XLVI. A Walk on the Campagna
47. XLVII. The Peasant and Contadina
48. XLVIII. A Scene in the Corso
49. XLIX. A Frolic of the Carnival
50. L. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello

• Conclusion
• Brown's Folly [a letter for the Essex Institute] (1860)
• "Chiefly about War Matters" (1862)
• Our Old Home (1863)
• The Dolliver Romance (unfinished, 1864, 1876)
• Septimius Felton: or, the Elixir of Life (unfinished, 1872)
• "The Ancestral Footstep" (unfinished, 1882-1883)
• Dr. Grimshawe's Secret (unfinished, 1883, 1954)
• Passages from the American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Passages from the English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne