Another outstanding story that leaves you wondering. Real or imagined? Young Goodman Brown goes into the forest innocent and comes out suspicious, bitter, and forever changed. All around him, he sees duality and hypocrisy. Where is the forest in our daily lives? Who and what inhabitant it? How do we know that what we perceive is real?

First published in New England Magazine, 1835. Collected in Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846 and The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doubleday, 1982