Nathaniel Hawthorne, a classic of American literature and one of the brightest representatives of magical realism, is the author not only of “The Scarlet Letter,” a recognized classic of the 19th century, but also of many stories and novellas in the genres of mysticism and horror. His works—“Young Goodman Brown,” “The Master’s Beauty,” “The Fire of the Purification of the Earth,” “The Doctor’s Experience, or Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” “The General’s Masquerade”—are comparable to such masterpieces as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” and Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle.”
The collection includes the entire cycle of novellas “Legends of the Governor’s House” and stories.