HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.
Twice-Told Tales.
"Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement, - call it which you will, - is a book...": The Heritage Press Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
New York: The Heritage Press, 1966.
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The Heritage Press edition of Hawthorne’s first major collection of short fiction. Royal octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, title page vignette, with color illustrations. In fine condition. Selected and introduced by Wallace Stegner. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Angelo was an Italian-American illustrator and printmaker whose refined hand-illumination, woodcuts, and typographic sensibilities contributed significantly to the private press movement in early 20th-century American book arts. He decorated and illustrated roughly 250 books in a 34 year period, including collaborations with the Grabhorn Press and the Limited Editions Club.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a central figure in 19th-century American literature, known for his exploration of moral complexity, historical consciousness, and the psychological dimensions of human experience. His works—most notably The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and Young Goodman Brown (1835)—interrogate themes of guilt, sin, and the legacy of Puritanism in American culture. Twice-Told Tales (1837) is Hawthorne’s first major collection of short fiction and a foundational work in the development of the American short story. Comprising previously published pieces revised for book form, the collection showcases Hawthorne’s early mastery of allegory, symbolism, and moral introspection. Set largely in New England and steeped in the region’s Puritan legacy, the tales examine themes such as guilt, retribution, and the supernatural with a subtle psychological depth. Hawthorne was widely praised by his literary contemporaries such as Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Twice-Told Tales.
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