The Birth-Mark

Books

"The Birth-Mark" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The tale examines obsession with human perfection. It was first published in the March 1843 edition of The Pioneer and later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of Hawthorne's short stories published in 1846. ---------- Also contained in: - [Celestial Railroad and Other Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455215W) - [Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15136484W) - [Fictions](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17733654W) - [Future Perfect](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3931584W) - [Great American Short Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15062982W) - [Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455617W) - [Haunting Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15141669W) - [Hawthorne's Short Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455582W) - [Literature and Science in the Nineteenth ...