Twice-Told Tales (The World's Best Reading)
Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, 1989. Lars Hokanson. 1st Edition. Hardcover_vinyl spine. 6.25"x9.25". 335 pages. 2nd printing. Navy cloth boards. Hawthorne's silhouette and letters in gilt on front w/blind stamped ivy. Black vinyl spine w/gilt letters. Union gray paste downs. Afterwords by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. USED GIFT QUALITY. Collectible - Fine. Item #13471
Twice-Told Tales, originally published in 1837 & 1842 and revised and republished by Hawthorne in 1851 (the edition reproduced here), is the most famous collection of Hawthorne's stories. All of Hawthorne's great gifts - and the features that make him not only one of the greatest but one of the most contemporary American authors, are on full display here. Insert from Reader's Digest The World's Best Reading which has a brief bio on Hawthorne is included.
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