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Nanci Svensson
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Hawthorne is one of the American "canonized" authors whose brilliance eludes me. He seems to me shallow, lacking in genuine love of language and digresses from the narrative as were he a senile or drunk Henry James (whose digressions are formidably amusing). Though The Scarlet Letter does imply some ability of understanding The Humanity and some social pathos, both The Scarlet Letter and this melodrama on the tiresome subject of an aristocracy that refuses to accept that the times they are a-cha ...more
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