Tales and sketches

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Contains 33 stories: Alice Doane's Appeal Ambitious Guest Artist of the Beautiful Birth-mark Celestial Rail-road Christmas Banquet Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Earth's Holocaust Egotism; or Bosom-Serpent Endicott and the Red Cross Ethan Brand Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Gray Champion Great Stone Face Hall of Fantasy Haunted Mind Hollow of the Three Hills Legends of the Province-House Major Molineux Man of Adamant May-Pole of Merry Mount Minister's Black Veil Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Mrs. Hutchinson My Kinsman Night Sketches Notch of the White Mountain Passages from a Relinquished Work Prophetic Pictures Rappaccini's Daughter Roger Malvin's Burial Sir William Phips Snow Image Sunday at Home Wakefield Wives of the Dead [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown)

subjects: Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Fiction,  short story,  sextons,  clergy,  American Historical fiction,  Classic Literature,  Short Stories,  Satanism,  Puritans,  catechism,  fiction classics,  literary fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, short stories (single author),  Supernatural,  Paranormal fiction,  classical mythology,  American children's stories,  American writers,  texts,  American literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Children's stories, American,  Juvenile literature,  Mythology, Classical -- Juvenile literature,  Historical fiction, American,  New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction,  Indigenous peoples,  Sailors,  Literature

People: Giacomo Rappaccini,  Giovanni Guasconti,  Beatrice Rappaccini,  Aylmer,  Georgiana,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  Mr. Hooper,  Elizabeth,  Dr. Heidegger,  Colonel Killigrew,  Mr. Medbourne,  Mr. Gascoigne,  Widow Wycherley,  Sylvia Ward

Places: Padua,  India,  Italy,  University of Padua,  New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  meeting house,  Milford meeting house,  Fountain of Youth,  Florida

Times: 1600s,  1830-1861