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"The Man of Adamant" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1837 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir , edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich . It later appeared in Hawthorne's final collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales , published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields .
The Man of Adamant; The Minister's Black Veil; My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The Man of Adamant" and "Young Goodman Brown" Herman Melville: "The Tartarus of Maids" Edgar Allan Poe: "The Black Cat" Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" Henry James: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" Ambrose Bierce: "That Damned Thing" Edith Wharton: "Afterward" Gertrude Atherton: "The Striding Place"
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In his preface to the collection, Hawthorne playfully noted that his confessional tone in writing about himself should not be trusted: "[T]hese things hide the man instead of displaying him", he wrote, and suggested that readers seeking "essential traits" of the author "must make quite another kind of inquest", specifically that "you must look ...
Farcical and viscerally upsetting in equal measure, P.S. Vinothraj’s “The Adamant Girl” masterfully exposes the nature of superstition by zeroing in on gendered expectations. A story of a ...
In 1850, Herman Melville referred to "Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" as a tale deserving of "curious and elaborate analysis, touching the conjectural parts of the mind that produced them." [ 5 ] Though author Henry James in 1879 said the story was "stiff and mechanical, slightly incongruous", it influenced his tale " The Jolly Corner ". [ 6 ]
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