A Virtuoso's Collection Explained

"A Virtuoso's Collection" is a short story by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, I (May 1842), 193-200, and later included as the final story in the compilation Mosses from an Old Manse. The story references a number of historical and mythical figures, items, beasts, books, etc. as part of a museum collection. Some scholars regard the real-life museum of the East India Marine Society in Salem, Massachusetts, as a model for Hawthorne's fictional museum.[1] The narrator is led through the collection by the virtuoso himself who turns out to be the Wandering Jew.

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  1. (fulltext via HathiTrust)
  2. Web site: Nicholas Rowe: The Life of Mr. William Shakespear . 2008-09-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080723160054/http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ROWE.HTM . 2008-07-23 .

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