The snow-image: a childish miracle

About the author

Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter sets a public punishment in a Puritan town and then studies the private lives around it. Guilt, in this novel, is as much a community habit as a feeling. More of this shelf for Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Where to read it

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More by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Scarlet Letter (1850) · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The House of the Seven Gables · Nathaniel Hawthorne

More short stories

• A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches · Sarah Orne Jewett
• The Man Without a Country, and Other Tales · Edward Everett Hale
• The Mummy's Foot · Théophile Gautier
• To Whom This May Come 1898 · Edward Bellamy
• The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life" · Ambrose Bierce
• Mrs. Spring Fragrance · Sui Sin Far