Twicetold Tales Volume 2 Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1856 edition by Alphons Dürr, Leipzig. Nathaniel Hawthorne created a myth of New England, and this myth still resonates in American identity today. His New England-inspired Twice-Told Tales, a collection of 39 short stories, exquisitely weaves together the historical, the supernatural, and the spiritu... more »al to explore issues of morality and guilt. In "The Minister's Black Veil," Reverend Hooper mysteriously dons a black veil over his face one Sunday, and refuses to remove it even as he approaches death. A second tale, "The Maypole of Merrymount," tells of the destruction of two young lovers' paradise when Endicott and his stern Puritans appear.« less