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Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage.
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage.
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Hawthorne rocks the world. Unfortunately he is greatly misunderstood. We read him in school, oftentimes, through the lens of The Scarlet Letter, which is usually taught all wrong. Hawthorne, like The Scarlet Letter, is usually presented by teachers as a critic of his time and culture. If that's all
I must admit that I struggled with the language on a number of occasions and that did make the stories hard work. There are some good elements in each of the stories. I particularly liked the science aspect in Birthmark and Rappaccini's Daughter. They are certainly good short stories but left me wan
Read for Rappaccine's Daughter. A few other stories held my interest. I like it much more than The Scarlet Letter. However, it is very wordy, which must be popular for the time he wrote. A story of a witch and her Scarecrow was quite good.
ENGLISH: This collection contains 11 short stories by Hawthorne, among them his three stories usually considered science fiction, although it seems to me that calling them by that name is an unnecessary extension of the genre.
"The Artist of the Beautiful", which deals with a watchmaker who dreams of
Dark romanticism inspired by a summer at a Unitarian Transcendental commune.
FAVORITES:
The Birthmark
Rappaccini's Daughter
Feathertop
The Artist of the Beautiful
One of Hawthorne's better known collections.
Note: the Kindle version is essentially only about half the stories in the volume. And, funny enough, doesn't include the Mosses From and Old Manse.
This is an anthology of short stories some of them familiar from freshman english classes. I enjoyed revisiting Young Goodman Brown, Rappuccini's Daughter, and most of all the horrifying Tale The Birthmark, where a husband dwells upon his wife's hand-shaped facial marking until she feels the force o
The first edition was published in 1846 with 23 stories, and later expanded to 26 stories in 1854. This edition reprints 11 of them. Most of the stories are allegorical and depict some of the darker aspects of human nature. The stories don’t hold up particularly well for modern readers, being somewh