Mosses from an Old Manse (Modern Library Classics)

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 €œYoung Goodman Brown,€ €œThe Birthmark,€ and €œRappaccini€s Daughter.€ Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess €œthe 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.€