# Selected Tales and Sketches

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- Book: [Selected Tales and Sketches](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/selected-tales-and-sketches) ([Selected Tales and Sketches.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/selected-tales-and-sketches.md))
- Authors: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne), [Michael J. Colacurcio](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-j-colacurcio)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4039-057-5
- Pages: 480
- Published: 1987-03-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any...