{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5dd0","title":"The Birthmark","publish_year":1843,"publish_source":"The Pioneer","publish_edition":"Vol. 1, Iss. 3","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_pioneer-a-literary-and-critical-magazine_1843-03_1_3/page/112/mode/2up","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","code":"the-birthmark","words":6439,"image":"instruments.jpg","image_alt":"A box of surgical instruments. Graphite filter.","genres":["gothic"],"blurb":"His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own.","description":"A man of science marries a beautiful woman, but he becomes obsessed over a birthmark on her face which he sees as a blemish on what could be perfect.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"gothic","title":"Best of Gothic","collection_type":"genre"}]}