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| The Old Man of the Mountain, original of The Great Stone Face (Wikipedia) |
Note: This is a story of inspiration, and how a boy spent his life looking for genius in all the wrong places.
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| Hester and Pearl, with Dimmesdale and Chillingworth behind them (Wikipedia) |
Note: At one time, most American high school students were required to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter. Set in the New England of two centuries earlier, it explores the mores of American Puritanism and the more universal themes of sin and guilt.
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