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- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 212
- ISBN-10: 1545069026
- ISBN-13: 9781545069028
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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It will be seen, likewise, that this Custom-House sketch has a certain propriety, of a kind always recognised in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages came into my possession, and as offering proofs of the authenticity of a narrative therein contained. This, in fact-a desire to put myself in my true position as editor, or very little more, of the most prolix among the tales that make up my volume-this, and no other, is my true reason for assuming a personal relation with the public. In accomplishing the main purpose, it has appeared allowable, by a few extra touches, to give a faint representation of a mode of life not heretofore described, together with some of the characters that move in it, among whom the author happened to make one.
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- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 212
- ISBN-10: 1545069026
- ISBN-13: 9781545069028
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
It will be seen, likewise, that this Custom-House sketch has a certain propriety, of a kind always recognised in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages came into my possession, and as offering proofs of the authenticity of a narrative therein contained. This, in fact-a desire to put myself in my true position as editor, or very little more, of the most prolix among the tales that make up my volume-this, and no other, is my true reason for assuming a personal relation with the public. In accomplishing the main purpose, it has appeared allowable, by a few extra touches, to give a faint representation of a mode of life not heretofore described, together with some of the characters that move in it, among whom the author happened to make one.
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