THE ATHENAEUMMosses from an Old ManseNathaniel Hawthorne
Uncanny
Mosses from an Old Manse
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textHawthorne’s tales written in the Concord house where Emerson once lived. “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is the one to begin with: a walled garden, a scientist, and a girl so steeped in poisonous flowers that her breath kills insects. It is a love story, of a kind.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The Night Conservatory
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #512. In the public domain in the United States.