Fiction · 1851
The Snow-image, and Other Twice-told Tales
The Snow-image, and Other Twice-told Tales gathers further short fiction from Nathaniel Hawthorne — the title story, about two children who build a snow-maiden that briefly, impossibly comes to life, undone by a well-meaning adult's insistence on bringing her in by the fire — alongside other tales of New England history and moral allegory in the same vein as his earlier Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse.
Hawthorne published this collection in 1852, the last of his major short-story gatherings before he turned more fully to the longer romances — The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables — that had already made him famous by the time it appeared.
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1804–1864 · Victorian
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of a judge at the Salem witch trials. After Bowdoin College he wrote tales for a dozen years in near-seclusion (Twice-Told Tales, 1837), worked in the Boston and Salem custom houses, and lived briefly at Brook Farm. The Scarlet Letter (1850) made his name; The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852) and The Marble Faun (1860) followed. He served as American consul at Liverpool from 1853 to 1857.
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