Ulalume 814
Annabel Lee 817
Eldorado 818
Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's twice-told tales 819
The Philosophy of composition 823
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) 831
The horse swap 832
Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878) 837
The big bear of Arkansas 838
Henry CLay Lewis (1825-1850) 848
The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter 849
George Washington Harris (1814-1869) 855
Rare Ripe Garden-seed 857
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 865
My kinsman, Major Molineux 869
Alice Doane's Appeal 881
Wakefield 889
Young goodman Brown 894
The minister's black veil 903
The birth-mark 912
Rappaccini's daughter 923
Ethan Brand 942
Preface to the house of the seven gables 953
from The American Notebooks: 955
[Thoughts on perfection: Toward the birth-mark]: 955
from October 25th, 1836; October 16th, 1837; January 4th, 1839 955
[On Thoreau]: from April 7th, 1843 955
[On Emerson's praise of Margaret Fuller]: from April 8th, 1843 956
[The unpardonable sin]: from July 27th, 1844 956
[The idea of the "neutral ground"]: October 13th, 1848 957
[A visit from Herman Melville]: August 1st, 1851 957
The scarlet letter: 958
Preface to the scarlet letter 958
The custom-house 959
The scarlet letter 983
Herman Melville (1819-1891) 1094
Bartleby the scrivener 1098
Benito Cereno 1123
The paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids 1177
Billy Budd, Sailor 1193