Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales (The ^AWorld's Classics)

by Nathaniel Nathaniel Hawthorne

First published 1987

Goodman Brown ventures into the shadowy forest, his faith shaken by the discovery of his neighbors' secret sins. As he witnesses a Satanic ritual, his world unravels, leaving him paranoid and disillusioned. Hawthorne's haunting tales expose the hypocrisy and darkness underlying Puritan society, where even the most pious may be corrupted.

Genres: fiction, classic-literature, american-fiction, 20th-century, 19th-century, dark

Vibes: atmospheric, dark, thought-provoking

Tropes: disillusionment, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Florida, India, Italy, Massachusetts, Milford Meeting House, New England, Padua, Salem Village, University of Padua

Period: 1600s

432 pages · Paperback · Oxford University Press

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