The Snow Image

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Snow-Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Snow-Image is a collection of stories by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Extract: One afternoon of a cold winter''s day when the sun shone forth with chilly brightness after a long storm two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl whom because she was of a tender and modest disposition and was thought to be very beautiful her parents and other people who were familiar with her used to call Violet. But her brother was known by the style and title of Peony on account of the ruddiness of his broad and round little phiz which made everybody think of sunshine and great scarlet flowers. The father of these two children a certain Mr. Lindsey it is important to say was an excellent but exceedingly matter of fact sort of man a dealer in hardware and was sturdily accustomed to take what is called the common-sense view of all matters that came under his consideration. With a heart about as tender as other people''s he had a head as hard and impenetrable and therefore perhaps as empty as one of the iron pots which it was a part of his business to sell. The mother''s character on the other hand had a strain of poetry in it a trait of unworldly beauty -- a delicate and dewy flower as it were that had survived out of her imaginative youth and still kept itself alive amid the dusty realities of matrimony and motherhood.