 Ethan Brand

"Ethan Brand—A Chapter from an Abortive Romance" (originally, "The Unpardonable Sin") is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 and first published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields in 1852 in "The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales", the author's final collection of short stories.Hawthorne originally planned a lengthy work about Brand, but completed only this piece.