Tooth of the Covenant

Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great—great—grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant Salem witch trial judge. In this, the eighth stand—alone book in The American Novels series, we witness Hawthorne writing a tale entitled Tooth of the Covenant, in which he sends his fictional surr...