The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
Nathaniel Hawthorne · English
Nathaniel Hawthorne's quiet character sketch (1842) of a nameless old apple dealer who sits at a 19th-century railroad depot, selling gingerbread and…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's quiet character sketch (1842) of a nameless old apple dealer who sits at a 19th-century railroad depot, selling gingerbread and apples to indifferent travelers. Through patient observation, Hawthorne contrasts the man's frost-bitten stillness with the roaring steam-fiend of the locomotive, finding moral and spiritual depth in a figure most would overlook.
The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
Nathaniel Hawthorne · English
Nathaniel Hawthorne's quiet character sketch (1842) of a nameless old apple dealer who sits at a 19th-century railroad depot, selling gingerbread and…
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The Old Apple Dealer by Nathaniel Hawthorne The lover of the moral picturesque may sometimes find what he, seeks in a character which is nevertheless of too negative a description to be seized upon and represented to the imaginative vision by word-painting. As an instance, I remember an old man who carries on a little trade of gingerbread and apples at the depot of one of our railroads. While awaiting the departure of the cars, my observation, flitting to and fro among the livelier
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's quiet character sketch (1842) of a nameless old apple dealer who sits at a 19th-century railroad depot, selling gingerbread and apples to indifferent travelers. Through patient observation, Hawthorne contrasts the man's frost-bitten stillness with the roaring steam-fiend of the locomotive, finding moral and spiritual depth in a figure most would overlook.
The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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