Nathaniel Hawthorne is easily one of America's most famous novelists, with works like The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables standard fare for American classrooms, but he also wrote dozens of short stories, some of which are very popular and critically acclaimed. Like his famous novels, these short stories also have Puritanical New England settings, and among his most famous are Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark. This collection has those two famous ones and nearly 90 others.