贯穿霍桑全部作品的创作思想便是对人类灵魂中隐匿的“恶”的挖掘和对构成真与美的基础的“善”的向往。所以，他在作品中便刻意描绘荒谬恐怖的现象，竭力挖掘阴暗怪诞的心理。然而，正因为这种晦涩的神秘主义倾向，反而使他的作品产生了一种曲径通幽的意径和余音绕梁的效果，引导我们透过种种象征去探究人物深藏的心理和主题背后的哲理。

1.The Gray Champion

2.The Minister's Black Veil

3.The Gentle Boy

4.Endicott and the Red Cross

5.Young Goodman Brown

6.Rappaccini's Daughter

7.The Celestial Railroad

8.The Great Stone Face

Thus far the elder traveller had listened with due gravity, but now burst into a fit of irrepressible mirth, shaking himself so violently that snakelike staff actually seemed to wriggle in sympathy.

 "Ha! ha! ha!" shouted he again and again; then composing himself, "Well, go on, Goodman Brown, go on; but, prithee, don't kill me with laughing."

 "Well, then, to end the matter at once," said Goodman Brown, considerably nettled, "there is my wife, Faith. It would break her dear little heart; and I'd rather break my own."

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