Works, Volume 1Houghton-Miflin, 1882 |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop. INTRODUCTORY NOTE . THE TWICE - TOLD TALES . On his return to his native town , Salem , after grad- uating at Bowdoin College in 1825 , Hawthorne de- voted himself to writing fiction . His ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop. INTRODUCTORY NOTE . THE TWICE - TOLD TALES . On his return to his native town , Salem , after grad- uating at Bowdoin College in 1825 , Hawthorne de- voted himself to writing fiction . His ...
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... Twice - Told Tales . " Possibly the title was suggested by that line , given to Lewis , the Dauphin , in " King John " : - " Life is as tedious as a twice - told tale . " About eight years after the first volume , a second one was ...
... Twice - Told Tales . " Possibly the title was suggested by that line , given to Lewis , the Dauphin , in " King John " : - " Life is as tedious as a twice - told tale . " About eight years after the first volume , a second one was ...
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... Twice - Told Tales ' which , on reperusal , affect him less painfully with a sense of imperfect and ill - wrought conception than The Gentle Boy . ' But the opinion of many . . compels him to the conclusion that nature here led him ...
... Twice - Told Tales ' which , on reperusal , affect him less painfully with a sense of imperfect and ill - wrought conception than The Gentle Boy . ' But the opinion of many . . compels him to the conclusion that nature here led him ...
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