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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Jan 23, 2015 Sara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 19th-century-literature, morality-play, historical-fiction, american-classics, religion, the-author-cards-list, literary-fiction, new-england, revenge

Before I actually review The Scarlet Letter, let me say to anyone who hasn’t read it that you need not read the preface, titled The Custom House, unless you, like me, want to know more about Hawthorne the man and can appreciate a very early 19th Century sense of humor. I love the descriptions of the old men, government workers, wasting time (without a water cooler)--perhaps some things never change–and his recollections of his ancestry and the roots he cannot shed that bind him to Salem. He divu ...more

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Mar 11, 2017 Jen from Quebec :0) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: disney-challenge, classics-i-ve-read, aty-challenge, read-the-audio-book, school, reading-challenge-books, books-i-ve-been-putting-off

I FINALLY read this (great) book! This has been on my TBR for a long long time, and I finally read it as part of a Group Read for a group here on the site and man, am I GLAD that I did! It took some twists and turns that I did not expect and had a very unique narration/writing style, especially in the last half. It was almost as if we were being told this story by a group of people, ala a chorus in an old play. For example "we bring you now to the part where..." or "you must understand that we d ...more

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