TY - BOOK AU - Hawthorne,Nathaniel TI - A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") AV - PS PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories KW - New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Virtuoso%27s_Collection; Release date is 2005-11-01; David Widger and Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Virtuoso's Collection" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story first published in 1842. A narrator tours an extraordinary museum filled with legendary artifacts and creatures from history, mythology, and literature—from the wolf that ate Little Red Riding Hood to Prometheus's vulture, from Don Quixote's Rosinante to a live phoenix. As the tour progresses through this cabinet of wonders, the mysterious guide reveals an unexpected identity that transforms the meaning of this impossible collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9235 ER -