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The narrator recounts being raised by a strict village clergyman whose stern methods clash with his own fanciful temperament, prompting him to leave home and become a wandering storyteller. He frames a series of short tales and sketches with anecdotes about his travels, the audiences he meets, and atmospheric descriptions of New England villages, nature, and fog-bound mornings. Interleaved reflections probe imagination, memory, moral lessons for young dreamers, and the tension between social expectations and an artist's impulse, while brief fictional specimens illustrate the narrator's narrative gifts.

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Title: Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Release date: November 1, 2005 [eBook #9232]
Most recently updated: November 9, 2022

Language: English

Credits: David Widger and Al Haines

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Passages from a Relinquished Work

by Nathaniel Hawthorne