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Fiction · 1846

Mosses from an Old Manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading time
about 11.5 h
Length
157,259 words · 262 pages
Structure
30 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Mosses from an Old Manse, first published in 1846, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. The Old Manse
  2. The Birthmark
  3. A Select Party
  4. Young Goodman Brown
  5. Rappaccini’s Daughter
  6. Mrs. Bullfrog
  7. Fire Worship
  8. Buds and Bird Voices
  9. Monsieur du Miroir
  10. The Hall of Fantasy
  11. The Celestial Railroad
  12. The Procession of Life
  13. Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
  14. The New Adam and Eve
  15. Egotism; Or, the Bosom Serpent
  16. The Christmas Banquet
  17. Drowne’s Wooden Image
  18. The Intelligence Office
  19. Roger Malvin’s Burial
  20. P.’s Correspondence
  21. Earth’s Holocaust
  22. Passages from a Relinquished Work
  23. A Flight in the Fog
  24. The Village Theatre
  25. Sketches from Memory
  26. Our Evening Party Among the Mountains
  27. The Canal-Boat
  28. The Old Apple Dealer
  29. The Artist of the Beautiful
  30. A Virtuoso’s Collection

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804–1864 · Victorian

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of a judge at the Salem witch trials. After Bowdoin College he wrote tales for a dozen years in near-seclusion (Twice-Told Tales, 1837), worked in the Boston and Salem custom houses, and lived briefly at Brook Farm. The Scarlet Letter (1850) made his name; The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852) and The Marble Faun (1860) followed. He served as American consul at Liverpool from 1853 to 1857.

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