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That they do so replicating the fate of Hawthorne's hapless heroine is testimony to the superficial values of our culture, our misguided notions of both perfection and health, and our failure to learn from the follies of history.
David Katz, M.D.: Bethlehem, 'Perfection' and Our Birthmark: Why Perfect Is the Enemy of Good! M.D. David Katz 2011
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That they do so replicating the fate of Hawthorne's hapless heroine is testimony to the superficial values of our culture, our misguided notions of both perfection and health, and our failure to learn from the follies of history.
David Katz, M.D.: Bethlehem, 'Perfection' and Our Birthmark: Why Perfect Is the Enemy of Good! M.D. David Katz 2011
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Its very breadth of knowledge can be intimidating if not irritating -- it isn't always clear why we need to know quite so much just to appreciate Hawthorne's stories or Leaves of Grass -- and its footnotes frequently insert what just seems superfluous information.
Literary Study 2009
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That they do so replicating the fate of Hawthorne's hapless heroine is testimony to the superficial values of our culture, our misguided notions of both perfection and health, and our failure to learn from the follies of history.
David Katz, M.D.: Bethlehem, 'Perfection' and Our Birthmark: Why Perfect Is the Enemy of Good! M.D. David Katz 2011
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I reread it last year, and was enthralled with Nathaniel Hawthorne's nuanced look at "sin" and human nature.
Dave Astor: The Pleasures of Rereading Dave Astor 2011
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We drove past the House of the Seven Gables and Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace, but it was already late, and we didn't stop.
"...our ghosts to wander all the water." greygirlbeast 2009
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's excellent The House of the Seven Gables is a pretty sobering novel, though one has to chuckle at those scenes of the overeating "little Ned Wiggins" at Hepzibah Pyncheon's little store.
Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's excellent The House of the Seven Gables is a pretty sobering novel, though one has to chuckle at those scenes of the overeating "little Ned Wiggins" at Hepzibah Pyncheon's little store.
Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012
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I also loved Hawthorne's "A Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales" - stories from the past were every bit as good as those from the future.
Howard Hughes Stays Up Late readingthedark 2010
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I reread it last year, and was enthralled with Nathaniel Hawthorne's nuanced look at "sin" and human nature.
Dave Astor: The Pleasures of Rereading Dave Astor 2011
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