Twice-Told Tales

A gathering of short stories and sketches, by turns allegorical, eerie and quietly moral.

At a glance Nathaniel Hawthorne explores sin, secrecy and the shadowed corners of New England in… These are stories that seem to have been told before, in some older, dimmer time, and… Twice-Told Tales is his early gathering of short fiction, and it announced a singular… What it's about The collection assembles short stories and sketches ranging from…

The collection assembles short stories and sketches ranging from historical episodes of colonial New England to allegories of conscience and strange, half-supernatural fables.