The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
1851
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
1851
Hawthorne's final collection of tales holds a mirror to childhood's fleeting magic - and the adults who forget how to believe. The centerpiece, "The Snow-Image," follows siblings Violet and Peony as they sculpt a girl from snow and watch, with unshakable conviction, as she steps off the lawn and into their lives. Their mother delights in their wonder. Their father sees only a melting pile of snow. What unfolds is quietly devastating: a story about what happens when pure belief meets a world that refuses to believe back. The other tales in this volume venture into similar territory - haunted by lost innocence, by secrets kept in Puritan New England, by the gap between what we hope for and what actually arrives. Hawthorne writes with his characteristic shadow: allegories that cut deeper than they first appear. This is a book for readers who remember what it felt like to believe something impossible - and who understand why that remembering hurts.
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