Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales")
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer. His work centres on his New England home and often features moral allegories with Puritan inspiration, with themes revolving around inherent good and evil. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.
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Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales") - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Title: Fancy's Show-Box (From Twice Told Tales
)
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Posting Date: November 27, 2010 [EBook #9208] Release Date: November, 2005 First Posted: August 23, 2003 Last Updated: February 5, 2007
Language: English
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TWICE TOLD TALES
FANCY'S SHOW-BOX
A MORALITY
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
What is Guilt? A stain upon the soul. And it is a point of vast interest, whether the soul may contract such stains, in all their depth and flagrancy, from deeds which may have been plotted and resolved upon, but which, physically, have never had existence. Must the fleshly hand and visible frame of man set its seal to the evil designs of the soul, in order to give them their entire validity against the sinner? Or, while none but crimes perpetrated are cognizable before an earthly tribunal, will guilty thoughts,—of which guilty deeds are no more than shadows,—will these draw down the full weight of a condemning sentence, in the supreme court of eternity? In the solitude of a midnight chamber, or in a desert, afar from men, or in a church, while the body is kneeling, the soul may pollute itself even with those crimes, which we are