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 "Hawthorne and His Mosses":

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 "Hawthorne and His Mosses":
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The Scarlet Letter

A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys : Classical Myths, Reshaped by Hawthorne's Fancy

Passages from the English Note-Books : An American Consul's Years in England

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, and Other Stories : Eight Stories Chosen by Bliss Perry

True Stories from History and Biography : Grandfather's Chair and the New England Past

The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables : Two New England Romances

Tanglewood Tales : More Myths Told at the Wayside

The Scarlet Letter : A Romance of Puritan Boston

50 Masterpieces You Have to Read : Volume One - An Essential Library of World Literature

Harvard Classics : The Five-Foot Shelf of Books

The Scarlet Letter

The Blithedale Romance

The Jewel of Seven Stars

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The Jewel of Seven Stars

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Mosses from an Old Manse

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Dolliver Romance : An Unfinished Romance

The Phantom of the Opera

The Great God Pan

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Great God Pan

The Great God Pan