Hawthorne's talent for descriptive writings was never exercised on a happier theme than the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. Built in 1765 by Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandfather, it was Emerson's temporary home for three different periods. Emerson wrote his Nature in the small back room on the second story, looking out upon the river, the North Bridge and the battlefield. When Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in July 1842, they took up their abode in the Old Manse. Here they passed three years in idyllic happiness.

"The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a beloved short story that was written in honor of the Old Manse building in Massachusetts where Hawthorne lived with his wife. This tale, in fact, can be seen as a sort of love story to his early years of marriage and the life he was building with his wife, Sophia Peabody just after their wedding in the 19th century.

An Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne's second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as "Young Goodman Brown," "The Birthmark," and "Rappaccini's Daughter." Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess "the element of simple genius, the quality of imagination. That is the real charm of Hawthorne's writing-this purity and spontaneity and naturalness of fancy."

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The Old Manse es un hist�rico mansi�n en Concord, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos famosa por sus asociaciones hist�ricas y literarias americanas. Est� abierto al p�blico como un museo sin fines de lucro propiedad y operado por los administradores de reservaciones. La casa est� situada en la calle del monumento, con el r�o Concord justo detr�s de �l. Los vecinos de propiedad del North Bridge, una parte de Minute Man National Historical Park.

In 1842, the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne rented the Old Manse for $100 a year. He moved in with his wife, transcendentalist Sophia Peabody, on July 9, 1842, as newlyweds. Peabody had previously visited Concord and met Ralph Waldo Emerson while working on a bas-relief portrait medallion of his brother Charles Emerson, who had died in 1836. She praised the town to Hawthorne, who responded, "Would that we could build our cottage this very now amid the scenes. My heart thirsts and languishes to be there." Prior to their arrival at the Manse, Henry David Thoreau created a vegetable garden for the couple. The Hawthornes lived in the house for three years.