Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories.: Is a Short Story Collection

Download or read book Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories.: Is a Short Story Collection written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846.The collection includes several previously-published short stories, and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846.Hawthorne seems to have been paid $75 for the publicatio Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses"