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    <body><![CDATA[The Scarlet Letter is about a woman accused of adultery and in the beginning she was led out of jail.  The whole town knew about the Scarlet Letter A on her bosom and stood out to the town.  She would use her child Pearl to cover the Scarlet Letter from the town and stand on top of the scaffold.  Ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59469301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once I took a Hawthorne class and I was hooked. Though I have not read all his short stories, all the novels I have and I've imagined them as being some of the best ever written. Maybe the stories themselves lack quicker plot/pace, but the writing is FLAWLESS. &quot;Scarlet Letter&quot;, &quot;House...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75897067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently read this novel. I just listened to it gain this week. <br/><br/>How long do you suppose Rev. Dimmesdale and Hester knew each other? Did they by chance know of each other in England?<br/><br/>What happened that brought Dimmesdale to realize (at lest I think so) that he really wasn't g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49764104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all, I'm not sure why this novel is taught in American high school.  The themes are far too complex for most high schoolers to understand, let alone emphathize.  That is why there are generations of students who abhor this novel.  Sadly, it is one of the greatest novels written, but so many...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60016498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my all time favorite books.  It is a heartbreaking tale of how love for one due to his clergy status required it be covered up and love for the other required to outright burden of always being on display for others to criticize as it was occurred against all social rules of the time....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44233764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this book in high school, I drudged bitterly through a couple meaningless symbols, wrote some half-hearted papers about &quot;The question of morality,&quot; and shrugged off what I'd deemed a cliche, over-done little story.<br/><br/>Upon a re-introduction to the novel in college, I was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34258424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pleasantly surprising! Originally, I picked up this book (school assignment, of course) thinking it would just be some psychological analysis of punishment and Puritan society, but it turned out to be a love story with interesting characters. It was very sad, though...there was no possibility of a h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60904945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a GORGEOUS novel.  ARGH!  I have to eat every comment I ever made about Hawthorne.  He is a genius.  I sort of hate myself for missing everything important about this novel the first time -- the beautiful love story, the strong protofeminist single mother Hester Prynne, and the tightly const...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69290185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[well....let's see here is what I learned: avoid the Chillingsworth's of the world. They are the most terrifying people ever and especially don't marry one (that's a whole other subject), it's the coldnes--my English professor described Chillingworth's activities as &quot;digging the finger that he p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51458091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm currently reading this book in my English class. I find it rather interesting, especially the fact that the letter A begin to manifest itself into other meanings than 'adulterer'. Hawthorne throws a lot of obvious images and metaphors into the book and while many of my classmates would rather ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33466539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know it is a classic, but this book just made me mad.  All the characters acted in their own worst interest.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book tore at my heart, but I enjoyed the love story. To me this book was about loyalty and redemption. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2005)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my all-time favorite books.  first read it in high school english class and i think i actually rented the demi moore craptastic film adaptation to get (an incorrect) synopsis because i was lazy.  thankfully, i re-read it in college and found it so full of fascinating ideas (about women, how t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5049451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this timeless novel about human pride and perception.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really great anthology to write comparative essays. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be teaching this for the first time in years.  It's one of those books that people groan about, I suspect, often not having read it.  Don't be fooled--it's a white-hot psychological novel on the order of Dostoevsky's best. It's all right to skip the introduction, &quot;The Customs House,&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28359833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't read The Scarlet Letter since I was in high school, and it was quite amazing to revisit it. I am looking forward to teaching it in American Lit this fall!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the three novels I teach in my American literary traditions elective. My students hate me for teaching &quot;The Custom-House,&quot; the introductory chapter in which Hawthorne sets forth his reasons for writing a historical novel. Yet, as I tell them, this chapter is essential to understandi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3287601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[yeah~<br/>]]></body>
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