This selection first published1987 as a World's classics paperback; reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback, 1998; reissued 2008.

The gentle boy (1832) -- My kinsman, Major Molineux (1832) -- Roger Malvin's burial (1832) -- The Canterbury pilgrims (1833) -- The seven vagabonds (1833) -- The grey champion (1835) -- Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Wakefield (1835) -- The maypole of Merry Mount (1836) -- The minister's black veil (1836) -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment (1837) -- Endicott and the red cross (1838) -- The birthmark (1843) -- The celestial railroad (1843) -- The Christmas banquet (1844) -- Earth's holocaust (1844) -- The artist of the beautiful (1844) -- Drowne's wooden image (1844) -- Rappaccini's daughter (1844) -- Ethan Brand (1850).