Contains:

The Piazza Tales: The Piazza Bartleby, the Scrivener Benito Cereno The lightning-rod man The encantadas, or enchanted isles The bell-tower

Fragments from a writing desk Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack" Hawthorne and his mosses The happy failure The fiddler Cock-a-doodle-doo! Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs The two temples The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids Jimmy Rose The 'gees I and my chimney The apple-tree table John Marr Billy Budd