FREEA Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
"A Virtuoso's Collection" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story first published in 1842. A narrator tours an extraordinary museum filled with legendary artifacts and creatures from history, mythology, and literature—from the wolf that ate Little Red Riding Hood to Prometheus's vulture, from Don Quixote's Rosinante to a live phoenix. As the tour progresses through this cabinet of wonders, the mysterious guide reveals an unexpected identity that transforms the meaning of this impossible collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Automated conservative edition review 2026-10-20T13:09:13.497Z (historical-original-en-v2), Philippines scope. English historical author Hawthorne, Nathaniel, died 1864; original-language author allowlist, matching sole EPUB/catalog creator, no credited contributors, no extra artwork, no flagged editorial/translation/copyright cues in isolated text. US public-domain source label and retained Gutenberg license; EPUB CRC passed. This is rule-based screening, not a worldwide rights opinion or a claim of manual review. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9235; Philippine term reference https://www.ipophil.gov.ph/copyright/. EPUB SHA256 be90c5cee37ed6921e92248d551afe3331bd6fb17f713eb463de7ae002cc2af6; RDF SHA256 ca991d87f3e4be73702e8ddb26ce566ee5ac97e525414b7ea0257781dc572117.
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