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"The Man of Adamant" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1837 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir , edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich . It later appeared in Hawthorne's final collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales , published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields .
The Man of Adamant; The Minister's Black Veil; My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The Man of Adamant" and "Young Goodman Brown" Herman Melville: "The Tartarus of Maids" Edgar Allan Poe: "The Black Cat" Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" Henry James: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" Ambrose Bierce: "That Damned Thing" Edith Wharton: "Afterward" Gertrude Atherton: "The Striding Place"
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Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses":
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In about 1732, Robin, a young man, arrives by ferry in Boston seeking his kinsman, Major Molineux, an official in the British Colonial government, who has promised him work. However, no one in town tells him where the major is. A rich man threatens the young man with prison, and an innkeeper calls him a runaway bond-servant. At the inn, he ...