Mosses From An Old Manse Annotated Edition0 PDF Download

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the timeThe collection includes several previously published stories, and was named in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived during the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846. Many of the stories compiled in Old Manse's Mosses 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 "Hawthorne and his mosses": This black conceit permeates it from beginning to end. He may be impressed by his sunlight, carried by the bright gold in the skies he builds on you.William Henry Channing noted in his review of the collection, in The Harbinger, its author "had been baptized in the deep waters of the tragedy", and his work was dark with only brief moments of "serene brightness" that was never brighter than "dark twilight".After the book's first publication, Hawthorne sent copies to critics like Margaret Fuller, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Theodore Tuckerman. Poe responded with a long review in which he praised Hawthorne's writings but blamed him for associating with the New England magazines, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists.He wrote: "Let him repair his pen, take a bottle of visible ink, get out of the Old Manse, cut Mr. Alcott, hang up (if possible) the editor of 'The Dial' and throw it out the window to all odd numbers from the American magazine A young Walt Whitman wrote that Hawthorne was underpaid and that it was unfair that his book competed with imported European books. He asked: "Should the true American genius tremble negligently while the public runs after this foreign garbage? "In general, most contemporary critics praised the collection and considered it better than Hawthorne's previous collection, Twice-Told Tales.