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Mosses From An Old Manse

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
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Summary
 "Mosses From An Old Manse" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mosses From An Old Manse is a collection of Hawthorne's allegorical prose pieces that explore moral, spiritual, and social themes through fable and fantasy. The book assembles stories such as The New Adam and Eve; Egotism; The Christmas Banquet; Drowne's Wooden Image; The Intelligence Office; Roger Malvin's Burial; Passages From A Relinquished Work; and additional sketches and parables that Hawthorne characterized as allegories of the heart. Through dreamlike scenes and stark moral situations, Hawthorne probes vanity, greed, power, fear, and mortality, often pairing contemporary American settings with antique or mythic frames. Hawthorne's tales blend Puritan anxieties with Romantic imagination, using symbolism to diagnose the illusions of civilization and the claims of Love, virtue, and imagination. Across a spectrum from biting satire to transcendent consolation, the pieces invite readers to reflect on the sources of happiness, the cost of ambition, and the possibility of redemption through compassion and self-knowledge. The volume remains a defining demonstration of Hawthornes unique capacity to weave moral inquiry with eerie beauty.©2026 Evergreen Photography Group (P)2026 Bob Neufeld Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction World Literature
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