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Mosses From An Old Manse

"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 is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. A second edition was published in 1854, which added "Feathertop," "Passages from a Relinquished Work, and "Sketches from Memory."

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": "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds." William Henry Channing reviewed the collection in The Harbinger and noted that its author "had been baptized in the deep waters of Tragedy" and his work was dark with only brief moments of "serene brightness" which was never brighter than "dusky twilight". (Summary by Wikipedia)

Year of Publication: 1846Genres: Single Author Collections

Running Time: 18 hours 59 minutes 07 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	The Old Manse - Part 1 Bob Neufeld	29:24
2	The Old Manse - Part 2 Bob Neufeld	26:25
3	The Old Manse - Part 3 Bob Neufeld	22:39
4	The Birthmark Bob Neufeld	49:01
5	A Select Party Bob Neufeld	39:16
6	Young Goodman Brown Bob Neufeld	39:20
7	Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 1 Bob Neufeld	34:26
8	Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 2 Bob Neufeld	48:37
9	Mrs. Bullfrog Bob Neufeld	21:12
10	The Celestial Railroad Bob Neufeld	47:15
11	The Procession Of Life Bob Neufeld	37:21
12	Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Bob Neufeld	55:11
13	Egotism; Or, The Bosom Serpent Bob Neufeld	39:43
14	Drowne's Wooden Image Bob Neufeld	34:10
15	Roger Malvin's Burial Bob Neufeld	56:10
16	The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 1 Bob Neufeld	34:55
17	The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 2 Bob Neufeld	33:24
18	Fire-Worship Bob Neufeld	22:12
19	Buds and Bird-Voices Bob Neufeld	24:15
20	Monsieur du Miroir Bob Neufeld	30:51
21	The Hall of Fantasy Bob Neufeld	31:41
22	The New Adam and Eve Bob Neufeld	48:53
23	The Christmas Banquet Bob Neufeld	52:30
24	The Intelligence Office Bob Neufeld	36:15
25	P.'s Correspondence Bob Neufeld	48:33
26	Earth's Holocaust Bob Neufeld	53:57
27	Passages from a Relinquished Work Bob Neufeld	38:07
28	Sketches From Memory Bob Neufeld	38:44
29	The Old Apple-Dealer Bob Neufeld	18:38
30	A Virtuoso's Collection Bob Neufeld	46:02