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The Minister's Black Veil, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, Feathertop: A Moralized Legend.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Elements of Romanticism and Gothic imagery dominate figurative language ("the old forest whispering," "as if Nature were laughing," "the Earth, too, had on her black veil") and allusions to folklore and religion (witch's benediction, incantations, book of magic, Fountain of Youth, Sabbath, scriptures, sermon, Eden).

A subtle portrait of Hawthorne, with a detailed discussion of the influence of Puritanism & Romanticism on his work.

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg St. John's Eve - Nikolai Gogol The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin Berenice - Edgar Allan Poe Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Nose - Nikolai Gogol The Minister's Black Veil - Nathaniel Hawthorne Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Ligeia - E.A. Poe The Fall of the House of Usher - E.A. Poe The Masque of the Red Death - E.A. Poe The Oval Portrait - E.A. Poe The Pit and the Pendulum - E.A. Poe The Black Cat - E.A. Poe The Tell-Tale Heart - E.A. Poe Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Double - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Varney the Vampire - James Malcom Rymer Villette - Charlotte Brontë The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne Bleak House - Charles Dickens Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Damned (Là-bas) - Joris-Karl Huysmans The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Trilby - George du Maurier Dracula - Bram Stoker The Beetle - Richard Marsh The Turn of the Screw - Henry James The Real Thing - Henry James The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker The Outsider - Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

Two handwritten letters from Ellen D. Larnal in Thompson, Conn., dated Mar. 15, 1895 and Aug. 13, 1907, concerning Burnett's eligibility for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR); several legal documents and unofficial typed copies concerning Burnett's ownership of real property in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York; and a bound, typed copy (24 leaves) of her address to the Sequoia Chapter of the DAR, given Apr. 9, 1923, entitled, "My Memories of Early California Days," in which she reminisces about her voyage from New York to San Francisco via Panama aboard the steamship, George Law, in Dec. 1855, and about her life in Marysville, Long Bar, Sacramento, and San Francisco with her husband, W.C. Burnett. Includes anecdotes about Chinese gold miners along the Yuba River, trials and hangings by the Vigilance Committee, and other topics and people. Bound in front are two photo portraits, one each of W.C. and Jane Cromwell Burnett.

The prose, poetry and writings of Jane Brawley Jordan