Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories (Annotated)

Mosses from an Old Manse was a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. It features several famous stories of Hawthorne.

Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the bad side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses":

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