num_pages: 664
description: Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark,” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess “the element of simple genius, the quality of imagination. That is the real charm of Hawthorne’s writing—this purity and spontaneity and naturalness of fancy.”
language: English
title: Mosses from an old Manse
titlecomplete: Mosses from an old Manse
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Gothic, Drama, American, Horror, Fantasy, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 833
publisher: Ohio State University Press