DIVDIVDaniel Stern’s sparkling reinventions of six great literary works/divDIV Twice Told Tales is a new take on some of literature’s greatest stories. In a bravura performance, acclaimed novelist Daniel Stern channels the particular styles and spirits of six classic pieces—even the writings of Sigmund Freud—into unexpected new settings. E. M. Forster, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway are updated in brilliantly drawn portraits, at once affectionate and satirical. Stern’s approach is deft and witty, yet always attentive to the timeless characters and ideas with which he works./divDIV/div/div

Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story collection Twice-Told Tales was first published in the mid 1800s and later turned into a 1963 American horror film starring Vincent Price. The film was based on two of Hawthorne's stories: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment amd Rappaccini's Daughter, along with the novel The House of the Seven Gables.