Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Written at the Concord house where Emerson once lived, this collection holds Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, Rappaccini's Daughter and Earth's Holocaust. The book that made Melville call Hawthorne a genius.
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