Title: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Title Record # 1001085
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date: 1832-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date: 1832-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published (as by "the author of Sights from a Steeple") in The Token, 1832.
Marked as one of the notable fantastic stories by Hawthorne in Rein A. Zondergeld's Lexikon der phantastischen Literatur from 1983.
Synopsis: Robin goes to Boston seeking a job that his kinsman Major Molineux, a British colonial official, has promised him. But the visit turns nightmarish when he can't find Major Molineux and runs afoul of the hostility of the colonists against officials.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| The Snow-Image, and Other Tales | 1851-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Henry G. Bohn (Bohn's Shilling Series #37) | 1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
vi+ 176 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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| The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales | 1852-01-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields | 273 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All Time | 1897-00-00 | ed. Ernest Rhys | New Amsterdam Book Co. |
viii+ 238 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
| The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All Time | 1897-00-00 | ed. Ernest Rhys | Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. |
viii+ 238 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||||
| The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1937-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books) |
xvi+ 1223 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | ||||
| Selected Tales and Sketches | 1950-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Rinehart (Rinehart Editions #33) |
xxx+ 410 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | ||||
| The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories | 1963-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Signet / New American Library (Signet Classic) | CP153 | $0.60?$: US dollar |
301 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | ||
| The Birthmark and Other Stories | 1968-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Scholastic Book Services (Master Storytellers Series) | TK-700 | $0.60?$: US dollar |
240 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | ||
| The Birthmark and Other Stories | 1968-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Scholastic Book Services (Master Storytellers Series) | TK-700 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
240 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | ||
| The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories | 1968-00-00 | ed. Daniel F. Howard | Little, Brown |
xvi+ 539 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||||
| Selected Tales and Sketches | 1970-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Rinehart Editions #33) | 0-03-079790-X |
xxvi+ 627 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | |
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| Affinities: A Short Story Anthology | 1970-09-00 | ed. Harold Jaffe, John Tytell | Thomas Y. Crowell (The Crowell Critical Library #620) | 0-690-05248-0 |
x+ 468 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | |
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| The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories | 1972-00-00 | ed. Daniel F. Howard | Little, Brown |
xx+ 646 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | |
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| The Snow-Image and Uncollected Tales | 1974-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Ohio State University Press (Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne #11) | 0-8142-0204-7 |
xi+ 488 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Tales and Sketches | 1982-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Library of America (The Library of America #2) | 0-940450-03-8 | $35.00?$: US dollar |
1493 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |
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| Selected Tales and Sketches | 1987-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) | 0-14-039057-X |
xl+ 440 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | |||
| Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories | 1988-00-00 | ed. James H. Pickering | Macmillan | 0-02-395541-4 |
ix+ 1533 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Tom Tomson | |
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| Fictions: Second Edition | 1989-00-00 | ed. C. Wade Jennings, Joseph F. Trimmer | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 0-15-527326-4 |
xi+ 1230 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Bernard Faucon | ||
| Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories | 1992-02-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions) | 0-486-27060-2 | $1.00?$: US dollar |
111 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | |
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| Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Great Political Stories | 1992-08-00 | ed. Mitchell Cohen | Dell Laurel | 0-440-20816-5 | $5.99?$: US dollar |
xxii+ 520 |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | Eugène Delacroix | |
| Discoveries: Fifty Shades of the Quest: Second Edition | 1992-10-29 | ed. Harold Schechter, Jonna Gormley Semeiks | Oxford University Press | 0-19-506850-5 | $81.95?$: US dollar |
652 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Asher B. Durand | |
| Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories | 1995-08-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Penguin Books (Penguin 60s #94) | 0-14-600094-3 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
89 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Michael Sweerts | |
| The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation | 1997-11-00 | ed. Editors of The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | 0-395-81386-7 |
xvii+ 1235 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Sir Edward Burne-Jones , Marcel Duchamp | ||
| Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories | 1999-05-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Könemann | 3-8290-3100-9 | 347 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | A. Bollett | ||
| The Portable Hawthorne | 2005-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) | 0-14-303928-8 | $18.00?$: US dollar |
xxii+ 439 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | |
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| Tales and Sketches | 2007-00-00 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Library of America (The Library of America #2) | 978-0-940450-03-5 | 1493 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |||
| The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 2 | 2011-12-12 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Leonaur Ltd | 978-0-85706-801-9 | £22.99?£: UK pound |
548 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
| The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 2 | 2011-12-12 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Leonaur Ltd | 978-0-85706-802-6 | £14.99?£: UK pound |
548 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | ||
| Selected Tales and Sketches | date unknown | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) | 0-14-039057-X | $10.95?$: US dollar |
xl+ 440 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | |
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| Tales and Sketches | date unknown | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Library of America (The Library of America #2) | 0-940450-03-8 | $39.50?$: US dollar |
1493 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |
|
| The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | date unknown | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library (Modern Library Classics) |
xvi+ 1223 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni |