Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Pyncheons, having lived for generations under the curse of a supposed witch who once occupied the land on which the family mansion was built, gain a new lease on life with the arrival of young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country.

Adaptations of Greek myths: The Minotaur, The Pygmies, The Dragon's Teeth, Circe's Palace, The Pomegranate seeds, and The Golden Fleece.

Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a multilayered story consisting of six Greek myths that are told from a unique perspective and appeals to all readers, specifically children. His writing style transcends age to deliver a family-friendly narrative. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is a compilation of classic stories inspired by Greek mythology. Hawthorne's interpretation is filtered through the fictional character, Eustace Bright, a college student...

The portrait of a faded, melancholy man who sells gingerbread and apples at the local train station. Hawthorne describes him in terms of negatives, of dim browns and faint shades of gray Even his melancholy is subdued, for he is unfortunate, but not that unfortunate.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great American author, cunningly, informatively, and entertainingly recounts several stories in American history. each story is told by a grandfather to his grandchildren. (Goodreads)

There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy than, while gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to recreate its youth, and without entirely obliterating the identity of form and features to restore those graces which Time has snatched away. Some old people—especially women—so age-worn and woeful are they, seem never to have been young and gay.

In this short story, Hawthorne sets the scene in a rural valley located in an unnamed U.S. state that resembles New Hampshire. A rock formation in a nearby notch is imagined, by many locals and visitors, to resemble the shape and features of a human face. - From Wikipedia

In this vignette, first published in The Token (1831) when Hawthorne was twenty-seven years old, the narrator describes the places and people that he sees atop the steeple of an urban church: the countryside, the stately mansions, the busy wharf, the solitary young man, the two young ladies he encounters, and their father the prosperous merchant. The sun-filled clouds, with which his description begins, are soon succeeded by darker cousins, a thunderstorm,...

EVERY SABBATH morning, in the summer time, I thrust back the curtain, to watch the sunrise stealing down a steeple, which stands opposite my chamber window.

This is a Project Guttenberg edition released in 2005. From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales" published in 1851 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. "A Bell's Biography" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story told from the perspective of a bell reflecting on its life and purpose. The bell recounts its creation, moments of celebration, sorrow, and community significance. Hawthorne uses the bell as a metaphor for human existence, exploring themes...