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Page 80
... story as well as others . He set the story specifically , as the opening line reveals , not in his native Salem , but in Salem Village , the cantankerous hamlet ( now Danvers ) in which the afflictions , the accusations , and the ...
... story as well as others . He set the story specifically , as the opening line reveals , not in his native Salem , but in Salem Village , the cantankerous hamlet ( now Danvers ) in which the afflictions , the accusations , and the ...
Page 114
... story in order to move it along . Granting Hawthorne the more obvious Gothic summaries , such as Fauntleroy's story in The Blithedale Romance , one must still notice the vagueness surrounding Hol- lingsworth's prison - reform scheme and ...
... story in order to move it along . Granting Hawthorne the more obvious Gothic summaries , such as Fauntleroy's story in The Blithedale Romance , one must still notice the vagueness surrounding Hol- lingsworth's prison - reform scheme and ...
Page 119
... story of the Sutpen family , inferring new facts and criticizing the historical errors in Miss Rosa's version and that of Quentin's father . The story covers the whole of Mississippi's history as a " unique " region , down to the time ...
... story of the Sutpen family , inferring new facts and criticizing the historical errors in Miss Rosa's version and that of Quentin's father . The story covers the whole of Mississippi's history as a " unique " region , down to the time ...
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