Short Stories

June 17, 2018

Wives of the Dead by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In our OLLI short story group this Thursday we are reading a less-known tale by the nineteenth century master Nathaniel Hawthorne. Maybe you had to read Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter in high school. “Wives of the Dead” was presumably written about 1829 when Hawthorne was twenty-five years old and had recently...

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June 6, 2018

Peter Rugg, the Missing Man

One of our oldest American ghost stories The short story discussion group at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Eugene is reading the story “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” by William Austin (1778-1841) for discussion on Thursday, June 7th, 2018.  “The time to which Rugg’s career dates back is that...

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