A collection of 36 short stories, including; The Gray Champion; Sunday At Home; The Wedding-Knell; The Minister's Black Veil; The Maypole Of Merry Mount; The Gentle Boy; Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe; Little Annie's Ramble; Wakefield; A Rill From The Town-Pump; The Great Carbuncle; The Prophetic Pictures; David Swan; Sights From A Steeple; The Hollow Of The Three Hills; The Toll-Gatherer's Day, and more.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

It is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives--Graham Greene The luminous books of our childhood will remain the luminous books of our lives.--Joyce Carol Oates Writers, as they often attest, are deeply influenced by their childhood reading. Salman Rushdie, for example, has said that The Wizard of Oz made a writer of me. Twice-Told Tales is a collection of essays on the way the works of adult writers have been influenced by their childhood reading. This fascinating volume includes theoretical essays on Salman Rushdie and the Oz books, Beauty and the Beast retold as Jane Eyre, the childhood reading of Jorge Luis Borges, and the remnants of nursery rhymes in Sylvia Plath's poetry. It is supplemented with a number of brief commentaries on children's books by major creative writers, including Maxine Hong Kingston and Maxine Kumin.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Little Daffydowndilly (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.