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The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales
The Snow Image and Other TwiceTold Tales Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: T. Y. Crowell Subjects: Historical fiction, American New England Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories History / General Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / General Literary Criticism / American / G... more »eneral Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MAIN-STREET. A Respectable-looking individual makes his bow, and addresses the public. In my daily walks along the principal street of my native town, it has often occurred to me that, if its growth from infancy up-l ward, and the vicissitude of characteristic scenes tha have passed along this thoroughfare during the mor than two centuries of its existence, could be presentee to the eye in a shifting panorama, it would be an ex ceedingly effective method of illustrating the march o time. Acting on this idea, I have contrived a certain pictorial exhibition, somewhat in the nature of a puppet-show, by means of which I propose to call up the multiform and many-colored Past before the spectator, and show him the ghosts of his forefathers, amid a succession of historic incidents, with no greater trouble than the turning of a crank. Be pleased, therefore, my indulgent patrons, to walk into the show-room, and take your seats before yonder mysterious curtain. The little wheels and springs of my machinery have been well oiled; a multitude of puppets are dressed in character, representing all varieties of fashion, from the Puritan cloak and jerkin to the latest Oak Hall coat; the lamps are trimmed, and shall brighten into noontide sunshine, or fade away in moonlight, or muffle their brilliancy in a November' cloud, as the nature of the scene may re...« less