Mosses from an old manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mosses from an old manse
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"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.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer descended from a judge at the Salem witch trials — a connection he was ashamed enough of to add the w to the family name. He spent twelve years after college writing in a room in his mother's house, worked at the Boston and Salem custom houses, and lived for a while at the utopian community of Brook Farm, which he later put into a novel. Herman Melville, who became a neighbour and a friend, dedicated Moby-Dick to him. His books include The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and Twice-Told Tales.