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"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.
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First page of "Young Goodman Brown" from The New-England Magazine, April 1835. The New-England Magazine was an American monthly literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1831 to 1835.
In about 1732, Robin, a young man, arrives by ferry in Boston seeking his kinsman, Major Molineux, an official in the British Colonial government, who has promised him work. However, no one in town tells him where the major is. A rich man threatens the young man with prison, and an innkeeper calls him a runaway bond-servant. At the inn, he ...
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Minister's Black Veil" (1836) by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource) "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource)
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories; O. Henry – The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories; Washington Irving – Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Henry James – Daisy Miller: A Comedy; V. S. Vernon Jones – Aesop's Fables; James Joyce – The Dead; Garrison Keillor – Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon ...
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) Ivan Turgenev's Faust (1855) Charles Baudelaire's The Generous Gambler (1864) Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles (1877) Samuel Adams Drake's Jonathan Moulton and the Devil (1884) Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) Oscar Wilde's The Picture of ...