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- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First published
- 1996
- Editions
- 67
- Subjects
- short story, Husband and wife, Fiction
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre
- horror literature
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- form of creative work
- novel
- inception
- 1843-00-00
- title
- The Birth-Mark
- language of work or name
- English language
- copyright status
- public domain
- first line
- In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one.
- last line
- The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.
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