Mosses from an old manse
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cover: Kindred Spirits (1849), oil on canvas by Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1886)
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.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: The Birthmark
- 2: A Select Party
- 3: Young Goodman Brown
- 4: Rappaccini’s Daughter
- 5: Mrs. Bullfrog
- 6: Fire Worship
- 7: Buds and Bird Voices
- 8: Monsieur Du Miroir
- 9: The Hall of Fantasy
- 10: The Celestial Railroad
- 11: The Procession of Life
- 12: Feathertop: a Moralized Legend
- 13: The New Adam and Eve
- 14: Egotism; Or, the Bosom Serpent
- 15: The Christmas Banquet
- 16: Drowne’s Wooden Image
- 17: The Intelligence Office
- 18: Roger Malvin’s Burial
- 19: P.’s Correspondence
- 20: Earth’s Holocaust
- 21: At Home
- 22: A Flight in the Fog
- 23: A Fellow-Traveller
- 24: The Village Theatre
- 25: The Notch of the White Mountains
- 26: Our Evening Party Among the Mountains
- 27: The Canal-Boat
- 28: The Old Apple Dealer
- 29: The Artist of the Beautiful
- 30: A Virtuoso’s Collection