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Mosses From An Old Manse

Mosses From An Old Manse

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Number of Chapters: 30

Length: 18 hours and 59 minutes

Language: English

"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. A second edition was published in 1854, which added "Feathertop," "Passages from a Relinquished Work, and "Sketches from Memory."

Many of the tales collected in "Mosses from an Old Manse" are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses": "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds." William Henry Channing reviewed the collection in The Harbinger and noted that its author "had been baptized in the deep waters of Tragedy" and his work was dark with only brief moments of "serene brightness" which was never brighter than "dusky twilight". (Summary by Wikipedia)

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The Old Manse - Part 1 (Bob Neufeld)
The Old Manse - Part 2 (Bob Neufeld)
The Old Manse - Part 3 (Bob Neufeld)
The Birthmark (Bob Neufeld)
A Select Party (Bob Neufeld)
Young Goodman Brown (Bob Neufeld)
Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 1 (Bob Neufeld)
Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 2 (Bob Neufeld)
Mrs. Bullfrog (Bob Neufeld)
The Celestial Railroad (Bob Neufeld)
The Procession Of Life (Bob Neufeld)
Feathertop: A Moralized Legend (Bob Neufeld)
Egotism; Or, The Bosom Serpent (Bob Neufeld)
Drowne's Wooden Image (Bob Neufeld)
Roger Malvin's Burial (Bob Neufeld)
The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 1 (Bob Neufeld)
The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 2 (Bob Neufeld)
Fire-Worship (Bob Neufeld)
Buds and Bird-Voices (Bob Neufeld)
Monsieur du Miroir (Bob Neufeld)
The Hall of Fantasy (Bob Neufeld)
The New Adam and Eve (Bob Neufeld)
The Christmas Banquet (Bob Neufeld)
The Intelligence Office (Bob Neufeld)
P.'s Correspondence (Bob Neufeld)
Earth's Holocaust (Bob Neufeld)
Passages from a Relinquished Work (Bob Neufeld)
Sketches From Memory (Bob Neufeld)
The Old Apple-Dealer (Bob Neufeld)
A Virtuoso's Collection (Bob Neufeld)
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