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Nanci Svensson
Jul 12, 2013 rated it it was ok
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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Sep 21, 2007 rated it it was ok
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Aug 04, 2008 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
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Ahtims
Jul 31, 2009 rated it it was ok
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Nov 13, 2009 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
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Sep 26, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Shelley Diemart
Dec 09, 2010 rated it it was ok
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Feb 03, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 13, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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