The Wives of the Dead - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Wives of the Dead

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Release Date: 1864-05-19
  • Genre: Classics
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The following story, the simple and domestic incidents of which may be deemed scarcely worth relating, after such a lapse of time, awakened some degree of interest, a hundred years ago, in a principal seaport of the Bay Province.

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