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"The Birth-Mark", The Pioneer, March 1843 "The Birth-Mark" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.The tale examines obsession with human perfection. It was first published in the March 1843 edition of The Pioneer and later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of Hawthorne's short stories published in 1846.
Ian Stevenson examined reports of people in different parts of the world who claimed to remember past lives, mostly young children. He explored the idea that "birthmarks and other skin lesions and abnormalities may provide evidence of cutaneous injuries sustained in a previous life, thus supporting the notion of reincarnation".
"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace.
English: The first page to the short story "The Birth-Mark", published in The Pioneer, March 1843, p. 113.Edited and published by James Russell Lowell. This is the first publication of Hawthorne's story.
A birthmark is a blemish on the skin formed before birth. Birthmark may also refer to: "Birthmarks" , an episode of the television series House; Birthmark (Teen Titans), an episode of the television series Teen Titans "The Birth-Mark", a romantic short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846
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Advertisement from Ticknor, Reed and Fields advertising several of Hawthorne's works in 1852. Hawthorne was ending his brief stay in Lenox, Massachusetts, as The Snow-Image, and Other Twice Told Tales was being prepared.
[1] Publisher James T. Fields pushed for Hawthorne to complete the project quickly. Fields had begun reissuing the author's earlier series for children titled Grandfather's Child, originally published by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and now renamed True Stories from History and Biography, and was also planning a new edition of Twice-Told Tales. [2]