Feathertop, A Moralized Legend
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
These writers don’t live very long! Looking at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s dates: he died at 60.
It is a great relief to read the opening sentence: “Dickon,” cried Mother Rigby, “a coal for my pipe!”
That is classic, that is beautiful.
The story before this one was very, very long, and self struggled with it for most of the day. She finally had to acknowledge defeat and leave it unfinished.
The “classic” stories she has read so far (an asterisk means the story found favor with her)
- The Queen’s Son, by Bettina von Arnim
- Hans-My-Hedgehog, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm *
- The Story of the Hard Nut, by E. T. A. Hoffmann *
- Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving
- The Luck of the Bean-Rows, by Charles Nodier *
- Transformation, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley *
- The Nest of Nightingales, by Theophile Gautier
- The Fairytale About a Dead Body, Belonging to No One Knows Whom, by Vladimir Odoevsky
- The Story of the Goblin Who Stole a Sexton, by Charles Dickens *
- The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Story of Jeon Unchi, by Anonymous
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
Kanlaon 