# The Christmas Banquet (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")

Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9228

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Christmas+Banquet+%28From+%22Mosses+from+an+Old+Manse%22%29+Hawthorne&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“I have here attempted,” said Roderick, unfolding a few sheets of manuscript, as he sat with Rosina and the sculptor in the summer-house,—“I have attempted to seize hold of a personage who glides past me, occasionally, in my walk through life. My former sad experience, as you know, has gifted me with some degree of insight into the gloomy mysteries of the human heart, through which I have wandered like one astray in a dark cavern, with his torch fast flickering to extinction. But this man, this class of men, is a hopeless puzzle.”

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-christmas-banquet-from-mosses-from-an-old-manse-9228/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-christmas-banquet-from-mosses-from-an-old-manse-9228/chapters/2/index.md)