LITTLE MASTERPIECES Nathaniel Hawthorne HC 1898 Birthmark, Great Stone Face

Description: LITTLE MASTERPIECES Dr. Heidegger's Experiment The Birthmark Ethan Brand Wakefield Drowne's Wooden Image The Ambitious Guest Great Stone Face The Gray Championby Nathaniel HawthorneFrontispiece____________________________Hardcover no dust jacket; 192 pages; Size Approx. 3 3/4 X 6.Published by Doubleday & McClure Co.; copyright 1897, 1898 printing.Details: A collection of eight of his short stories.Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. ~ "That very singular man, old Dr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy old creatures, who had been unfortunate in life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves..... It is a circumstance worth mentioning, that each of these three old gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, were early lovers of the Widow Wycherly, and had once been on the point of cutting each other's throats for her sake. And, before proceeding further, I will merely hint, that Dr. Heidegger and all his four guests were sometimes thought to be a little beside themselves; as is not unfrequently the case with old people, when worried either by present troubles or woeful recollections." ~ from the opening of the story.Nice frontispiece of Hawthorne. Top page edges are gilt, other edges are untrimmed.A fine little pocket-sized book!Condition: There is a brown stain on the upper edge of the first few pages, otherwise in very good condition with a solid binding and clean pages. Note: The letter/number at the end of the title line for this listing is just an inventory code for locating the book. Free Domestic Economy Shipping! Paypal Accepted

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