Mosses from an Old Manse
This celebrated collection gathers Hawthorne’s finest short stories and sketches, including the haunting ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter,’ and ‘The Birthmark’—dark allegories of sin, obsession, science, and the hidden evil in the human heart. Written with symbolic richness and moral depth, these tales explore guilt, pride, and the mysteries of the soul in his characteristic shadowy New England mode. Among the greatest short fiction in American literature, Mosses from an Old Manse reveals Hawthorne as a master of the moral tale. Profound, eerie, and beautifully crafted, the collection is essential reading, distilling his obsessions with conscience and corruption into unforgettable, jewel-like stories.
About the Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th-century American novelist and short-story writer central to the Dark Romantic movement. He is best known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, with their themes of sin, guilt, and Puritan New England.
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Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Old Manse - Part 1 | 29:24 | |
| 2 | The Old Manse - Part 2 | 26:25 | |
| 3 | The Old Manse - Part 3 | 22:39 | |
| 4 | The Birthmark | 49:01 | |
| 5 | A Select Party | 39:16 | |
| 6 | Young Goodman Brown | 39:20 | |
| 7 | Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 1 | 34:26 | |
| 8 | Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 2 | 48:37 | |
| 9 | Mrs. Bullfrog | 21:12 | |
| 10 | The Celestial Railroad | 47:15 | |
| 11 | The Procession Of Life | 37:21 | |
| 12 | Feathertop: A Moralized Legend | 55:11 | |
| 13 | Egotism; Or, The Bosom Serpent | 39:43 | |
| 14 | Drowne's Wooden Image | 34:10 | |
| 15 | Roger Malvin's Burial | 56:10 | |
| 16 | The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 1 | 34:55 | |
| 17 | The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 2 | 33:24 | |
| 18 | Fire-Worship | 22:12 | |
| 19 | Buds and Bird-Voices | 24:15 | |
| 20 | Monsieur du Miroir | 30:51 | |
| 21 | The Hall of Fantasy | 31:41 | |
| 22 | The New Adam and Eve | 48:53 | |
| 23 | The Christmas Banquet | 52:30 | |
| 24 | The Intelligence Office | 36:15 | |
| 25 | P.'s Correspondence | 48:33 | |
| 26 | Earth's Holocaust | 53:57 | |
| 27 | Passages from a Relinquished Work | 38:07 | |
| 28 | Sketches From Memory | 38:44 | |
| 29 | The Old Apple-Dealer | 18:38 | |
| 30 | A Virtuoso's Collection | 46:02 |
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