The Portable Hawthorne is an omnibus collection of the work of this great cartographer of the forbidden regions of the spirit. It contains the complete Scarlet Letter, together with Hawthorne's introduction, " The Custom-House"; selections from The House of Seven Gables, The Blithdale Romance, The Marble Faun, and the unfinished Dolliver Romance; thirteen short stories, including " Young Goodman Brown," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "Ethan Brand," and "The Celestial Roalroad"; excerpts from the American and European notebooks; letters; a bibliography and chronology of Hawthorne's life; and an introductory essay by the volume's editor, Malcolm Cowley.