... read to this very day. Some of his works include The Custom House, The Scarlet Letter, and Fanshawe just to name a few. Fanshawe was a imitate of Sir Walter Scott witch Nathaniel self publish in 1828. The Custom House was a prequel to The Scarlet Letter witch also did very well in the stores. The Scarlet Letter remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth and continues to ... be read as a classic. The book attained an immediate and lasting success because it addressed a spiritual and moral issue ... that in 1850 was an extremely risqué subject. On May 19, 1864 Nathan...

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... his poll tax. This act of defiance was a protest against slavery and against the Mexican War, which Thoreau and other abolitionists regarded as a means to expand the slave territory. Hawthorne also wrote many stories, one including The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was first published on March 16, 1950, and was an immediate success. The novel deals with the effects that guilt produces in its main characters. For instance ... , the main character, Hester Prynne, who has just given birth to an illegitimate daughter, has ... ...

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