Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 creator text utu 1996 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Mosses from an Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story collection published in 1846. Named after the house where Hawthorne spent the first years of his marriage, this collection features allegorical tales that explore the darker aspects of human nature. Critics noted the work's pervading "blackness of darkness" beneath its bright surface, with only brief moments of light breaking through. The stories probe moral and psychological depths through Hawthorne's characteristic symbolic style, creating what contemporaries considered superior to his earlier work. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 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. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosses_from_an_Old_Manse Release date is 1996-04-01 Charles Keller Updated: 2022-11-09. Charles Keller Updated: 2022-11-08. Original publication data not identified Short stories, American New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133032.0 512