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"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" is a short story written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1831. It first appeared in the 1832 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, published by Samuel Goodrich. It later appeared in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1852.
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In the days before the American Revolution, Robin, a youth, arrives by ferry in Boston seeking his kinsman. Major Molineux, an official in the British Colonial government, has promised him work. Yet no one in town tells him where the major is. A rich man threatens the youth with prison, and an innkeeper calls him a runaway bond-servant. At every turn he meets a man with a red-and-black face, who seems at the center of many evil things. On the steps of a church, he runs into an old gentleman who tells him his kinsman will soon pass by. Soon, the two men hear the roar of an approaching mob. At its head is the man with the red-and-black face: in its midst is Major Molineux, tarred and feathered. Disillusioned, the youth asks the old gentleman the way back to the ferry. Yet the latter restrains him, saying that it is still possible for him to thrive without his kinsman's protection.
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"The Gray Champion" · "Sundays at Home" · "The Wedding-Knell" · " The Minister's Black Veil" · " The May-Pole of Merry Mount" · "The Gentle Boy" · "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" · "Little Annie's Ramble" · "Wakefield" · "A Rill from the Town-Pump" · " The Great Carbuncle" · "The Prophetic Pictures" · "David Swan" · "Sights from a Steeple" · "The Hollow of the Three Hills" · "The Toll-Gatherer's Day" · "The Vision of the Fountain" · "Fancy's Show Box" · " Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" · "Legends of the Province-House" · "The Haunted Mind" · "The Village Uncle" · " The Ambitious Guest" · "The Sister Years" · "Snow-Flakes" · "The Seven Vagabonds" · "The White Old Maid" · "Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure" · "Chippings with a Chisel" · "The Shaker Bridal" · "Night Sketches" · "Endicott and the Red Cross" · "The Lily's Quest" · "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore" · "Edward Fane's Rosebud" · "The Threefold Destiny"
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Other Twice-Told Tales |
"The Snow-Image" · "The Great Stone Face" · "Main-street" · " Ethan Brand" · "A Bell's Biography" · "Sylph Etherege" · "The Canterbury Pilgrims" · "Old News" · " The Man of Adamant" · "The Devil in Manuscript" · "John Inglefield's Thanksgiving" · "Old Ticonderoga" · "The Wives of the Dead" · "Little Daffydowndilly" · " My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
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" The Old Manse" · " The Birth-Mark" · "A Select Party" · " Young Goodman Brown" · " Rappaccini's Daughter" · "Mrs. Bullfrog" · "Fire-Worship" · "Buds and Bird-Voices" · "Monsieur du Miroir" · "The Hall of Fantasy" · "The Celestial Rail-road" · "The Procession of Life" · " Feathertop" · "The New Adam and Eve" · " Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" · "The Christmas Banquet" · "Drowne's Wooden Image" · "The Intelligence Office" · "Roger Malvin's Burial" · " P.'s Correspondence" · "Earth's Holocaust" · "Passages from a Relinquished Work" · "Sketches from Memory" · "The Old Apple-Dealer" · "The Artist of the Beautiful" · "A Virtuoso's Collection" |
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