Mosses from An Old Manse And Other Stories

Download this collection of 26 thought-provoking short stories from one of the brightest transcendentalist lights, Nathanial Hawthorne, who is also the author of the immensely popular The Scarlet Letter.


This collection of mostly allegorical works delves deep into the dark side of human nature, unbridled ambition and humanity's search for perfection as Hawthorne pits reason against emotion within his stories.


Entitled after Ralph Waldo Emerson's family home in Concord, Massachusetts, known as the Old Manse, where Hawthorne spent the first three years of his marriage, Mosses reveals Hawthorne's pessimism in all its foreboding glory and gloomy genius.


The collection was reviewed and praised by many of his contemporaries, to include Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe, and William Henry Channing stated that Hawthorne "...had been baptized in the deep waters of tragedy."


Due to the inclusion of such popular stories as The Birthmark, Rappaccini's Daughter, and The Artist of the Beautiful, these timeless works are read and analyzed in American literature courses to this day as Hawthorne's symbolism is continually re-evaluated with the passage of time.


Download Mosses From an Old Manse and other stories today and add some of Hawthorne's finest short stories to your collection of American classics!