Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; Salem, Massachusetts United States, July 4, 1804 - Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States, May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and storyteller known for his numerous stories of Gothic fiction and romanticism Dark.He was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts, son of Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in Salem's witch trials who never regretted his actions. Nathaniel later added a "W" to change his last name to "Hawthorne", in order to hide this relationship. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821, where he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. Hawthorne published his first work, a novel entitled Fanshawe, in 1828. He later tried to remove it from his catalog, feeling that It was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in newspapers, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The following year, he got engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at Boston customs and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, then to Salem, Berkshires and then to The Wayside in Concord. . One of his most notable works,