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