# The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

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- Book: [The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-celestial-railroad-and-other-stories) ([The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-celestial-railroad-and-other-stories.md))
- Authors: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne), [Ross C. Murfin](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-c-murfin)
- Publisher: Signet
- ISBN: 978-04-5153-020-2
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2006-08-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul....