In a short story by this author, Mother Rigby creates a living scarecrow that falls apart after it looks in the mirror and sees its "real composition.
In a short story by this author, Mother Rigby creates a living scarecrow that falls apart after it looks in the mirror and sees its "real composition." The antagonist of another of his stories claims that Tophet is the "crater of a half-extinct volcano" and that a supposed door to hell leads to a cavern used to smoke ham. A third story by this writer concerns an "Outcast of the Universe" who leaves his (*) wife and lives in a house across the street for twenty years for no apparent reason. This author of "Feathertop" and "Wakefield" was the dedicatee of Moby Dick, and he described a dream-journey through the terrain described in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in "The Celestial Railroad." For 10 points, name this American author of the short story "Young Goodman Brown" and the novel The Scarlet Letter.
In a short story by this author, Mother Rigby creates a living scarecrow that falls apart after it looks in the mirror and sees its "real composition.
Nathaniel Hawthorne