Mosses from an old manse

Summary

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1846 collection includes The Birth-Mark, Young Goodman Brown and Rappaccini's Daughter. The tales move from a sunlit parsonage to dark allegory and strange science.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

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• Italian · description available; chapters remain in English

Chapters (30)

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