Mosses from an Old Manse is a collection of short stories and sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The pieces often explore Puritan New England, moral allegory, and human nature, with some lighter fantasies. It is worth listening for its rich, atmospheric prose and place in American short fiction.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Contents The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory
The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
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