Hawthorne's Short Stories (Vintage Classics) & Spy demanding that she use her

demanding that she use her healing powers to cure the madness of his father

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the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries

Chameleon is sad because he doesn’t have a colour of his own

Hawthorne's Short Stories (Vintage Classics) & Spy demanding that she use herTwenty four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as