Margaret A. Coleridge

Written in the damp Concord parsonage where Emerson had lived before him, Mosses from an Old Manse gathers more than twenty of Nathaniel Hawthorne's finest tales and allegories: a scientist who cannot bear the small birthmark on his wife's cheek, a man who steps out of his life for twenty years to watch it from across the street, a garden whose beauty is deadly. Descended from a judge of the Salem witch trials, Hawthorne made these dark parables his laboratory.
This edition presents the complete and unabridged collection, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.