In Hawthorne's shadow : American romance from Melville to Mailer / Samuel Chase Coale.
""The world is so sad and solemn, "" wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, ""that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves."" From the radical...
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