Classic stories of the author Nathaniel Hawthorne

Classics

19th Century 8 min

David Swan

We can be but partially acquainted even with the events which actually influence our course through life, and our final destiny. There are innumerable other events–if such they may be called–which ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 12 min

The Ambitious Guest

Nathaniel Hawthorne

One September night a family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the driftwood of mountain streams, the dry cones of the pine, and the splintered ruins of great trees that had come ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 25 min

The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 20 min

The Minister's Black Veil

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A PARABLE
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old people of the village came stooping along the street. Children, with bright faces, tripped ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 7 min

The Paradise of Children

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Long, long ago, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child named Epimetheus who never had either father or mother; and that he might not be lonely, another child, fatherless and ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 20 min

Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem Village; but put his head back after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as the wife ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 7 min

The Haunted Mind

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a singular moment is the first one, when you have hardly begun to recollect yourself, after starting from midnight slumber! By unclosing your eyes so suddenly you seem to have surprised the ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 7 min

The Boston Massacre

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was now the 3rd of March, 1770. The sunset music of the British regiments was heard, as usual, throughout the town. The shrill fife and rattling drum awoke the echoes in King Street, while the last ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 11 min

The Gray Champion

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the ... [+]