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My Kinsman, Major Molineux

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206:. At the inn, he meets a man with a face described as looking like the devil - two protrusions emanating from his forehead (like horns), eyes burning like 'fire in a cave'- who seems at the center of many evil things. Later, he runs into the man again, but this time his face is painted black and red. After blocking his path with a cudgel, he finally gets the answer that his kinsman will soon pass by. He waits at the spot on the steps of a church where he is greeted by the first polite gentleman he has met all night. Soon, the two men hear the roar of an approaching mob. At its head is the man with the red and black face - and in its midst is Major Molineux, 189: 644: 249: 210:. The crowd is in an uproar, and everyone is laughing. Soon, so is young Robin, as his eyes meet those of the Major, who knows him right away. Disillusioned, the youth asks the gentleman the way back to the ferry. Yet the latter restrains him, saying that it is still possible for him to thrive without his kinsman's protection. 252: 242: 714: 202:
government, who has promised him work. However, no one in town tells him where the major is. A rich man threatens the young man with prison, and an innkeeper calls him a runaway
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In about 1732, Robin, a young man, arrives by ferry in Boston seeking his kinsman, Major Molineux, an official in the
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in New York City in 1964. Lowell's version of the story is a cartoonish and surreal version of the original.
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adapted this story into one of the three plays in his trilogy
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Works originally published in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir
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My Kinsman Major Molineaux
Short story
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short story
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
Periodical
Short story collection
Samuel Goodrich
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
short story
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir
Samuel Goodrich
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
Ticknor, Reed & Fields

British
Colonial
bond-servant
tarred and feathered
Robert Lowell
The Old Glory
American Place Theatre
E-text version of 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux'
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
LibriVox
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