Nathaniel Hawthorne

Roger Malvin's Burial Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Roger Malvin's Burial" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1832 Following Battle of Pequawket (Hawthorne uses the name Lovell's Fight) in 1725, two survivors of the battle struggle to return home. Roger Malvin and Reuben Bourne are both wounded and weak, and they have little hope that they will survive. They rest near a rock that resembles an enormous tombstone.