A review by nwhyte
Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Redbadge of Courage, Billy Budd by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1192910.html[return][return]I guess I was just not in the mood for this. I found the archaic language tedious, the moral dilemmas artificial and not very interesting, and the portrayal of Puritan society unrealistic; I also was repelled by the author's lengthy autobiographical digression about working in the custom-house at the start. Well, one more nineteenth-century classic that I will never have to pick up again...