Download or read book Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - Large Print Edition written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That very singular man, old Dr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy old creatures, who had been unfortunate in life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves. Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, but had lost his all by a frantic speculation, and was now little better than a mendicant.