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Criticism Related to Hawthorne's Novels
Title page of 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter
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Fanshaw
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
The Blithedale Romance
The Marble Faun
Unfinished Novels |
The Scarlet Letter
In The
Threads of the Scarlet Letter: A Study of Hawthorne's Transformative Art ,
Richard Kopley suggests that the scene in The Scarlet Letter in which
Chillingworth approaches the sleeping minister may have been inspired
by Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” (courtesy
of University of Delaware Press)
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