The Minister's Black Veil (Unabridged)

The Minister's Black Veil (Unabridged)

Title: The Minister's Black Veil (Unabridged)
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Release: 2025-01-19
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Classics
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The Minister's Black Veil (Unabridged) Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister's Black Veil was first published in the 1836 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir. It later appeared in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837. Hawthorne's inspiration for this story may have been a true event. A clergyman named Joseph Moody of York, Maine, nicknamed "Handkerchief Moody", accidentally killed a friend when he was a young man and wore a black veil from the man's funeral until his own death. The story concerns the minister of a small town who suddenly and inexplicably begins wearing a black veil that hangs from his forehead and covers his eyes and nose. As one charater in the story says, "He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face." Hawthorne thus creates a dramtic story based around two of his common themes - the effects of secrecy and guilt.

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