Mosses from an Old Manseby Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - Short Story Collection" |
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| Pages: | 559 |
| Year of Publication: | 1854 |
| Date Read: | 06/11/1995 |
| Notes: | Short stories, allegories and observations written while Hawthorne lived at the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ancestors. The 25 tales and sketches include some of the author's finest short works. Many of the Romantic themes found in Hawthorne's longer fiction are addressed in the stories: for example, the conflict between reason and emotion in the gothic tales Rappaccini's daughter and The Birthmark, and between Puritan religion and the supernatural in Young Goodman Brown. Also noteworthy are the title essay describing the parsonage and Roger Malvin's Burial, a historical tale. |
| My Rating: | 6 |