CENTENARY ED WORKS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: VOL. X, MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE (Volume 10) (Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorneâs 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 âYoung Goodman Brown,â âThe Birthmark,â and âRappacciniâs Daughter.â Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess âthe element of simple genius, the quality of imagination. That is the real charm of Hawthorneâs writingâthis purity and spontaneity and naturalness of fancy.â