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Photographic portrait, 1860–1864Mathew Benjamin Brady · Public domain

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne’s narrator connects outward signs with concealed burdens. Read Hester’s moment of relief beside Dimmesdale’s inability to recognise an enemy, treating both as descriptions of these characters and circumstances.

1804 AD – 1864 AD · 121 collected ↗