Doctor Heidegger has invited four old friends to his study. He needs their help with an experiment. His friends presume the experiment will be nothing out of the ordinary. Perhaps they will inspect a cobweb under a microscope or witness the slow death of a mouse. But when Dr. Heidegger's guests gather around a small black table that holds a cut-glass vase, strange things begin to happen that will change their lives forever, or so it seems. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is an outstanding example of the pictorial quality of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work. No writer past or present has set a scene more pictorially than Mr. Hawthorne.Enlivened and enriched by Marc Johnson-Pencook's amazing pen and ink illustrations, "Nathaniel Hawthorne's Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" will introduce middle readers - and many others - to Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of America's greatest authors.
