Hawthorne was encouraged by friend Horatio Bridge to collect these previously anonymous stories; Bridge offered $250 to cover the risk of the publication.
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She sent copies of the collection to William Wordsworth as well as to Horace Mann, hoping that Mann could get Hawthorne a job writing stories for schoolchildren.
The Tales of Hoffmann | Tales of the Unexpected | Unfinished Tales | The Canterbury Tales | Tales from the Crypt (TV series) | Tales from the Crypt | Weird Tales | Tales of the Unexpected (TV series) | Tales from the Cryptkeeper | Tales of the Riverbank | Strange Tales | Tales of the City | Tales of Suspense | Leatherstocking Tales | Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Tales of Monkey Island | Tales from the Darkside | Tales from Earthsea | Ox-Tales | Modern Tales | Tube Tales | Tales of Tomorrow | Tales of the Unexpected (comics) | Tales of the Texas Rangers | Tales of the Tempest | Tales of the Shadowmen | Tales from the Vienna Woods | Tales from Earthsea (film) | Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
First published in The New-England Magazine in June of 1835, it is better known for its publication in the second volume of Twice-Told Tales in 1841.
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 Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales was the final collection of short stories published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his lifetime, appearing in 1852.