Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by John Constable, George Morland and John Frederick Kensett. The stories Hawthorne published anonymously in magazines over a dozen years and then collected at last under his own name: the minister who puts on a black veil and will not explain, the man who steps out of his life for twenty years to watch it from across the street, the ambitious guest. Poe reviewed the book and announced that its author was a genius; Hawthorne said the tales had been written in a lonely chamber by a man who had no one to talk to. Sixty plates by painters from Munch to Francis Danby carry the same lonely New England light, its windows, snowbound avenues, and boys sailing a little boat.