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Mosses from an Old Manse
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrator
- George Doyle
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Publish Date
- 25 December 2017
- Run Time
- 18 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrator
- George Doyle
- Duration
- 18 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 December 2017
- ISBN
- 4251177559648
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review about Hawthorne and His Mosses: "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight,—transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds." William Henry Channing noted in his review of the collection, that its author "had been baptized in the deep waters of Tragedy", and his work was dark with only brief moments of "serene brightness" which was never brighter than "dusky twilight".
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