Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Marianne North, William James Müller and Hieronymus Bosch. Twenty-odd tales written in a damp parsonage where Emerson had lived before him — a scientist who erases his wife's birthmark, a young Puritan who walks into the forest at night and finds his whole village there, a garden whose beauty is fatal. Hawthorne descended from a judge at the Salem witch trials and never got over it; the allegories here are his laboratory. Fifty-eight plates of rivers, moonlight, and mountain weather by painters including J. M. W. Turner and John Berney Crome give these tales of conscience and shadow their natural element.