Reviews

Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge Of Courage, Billy Budd by Sandra Newman, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane

nwhyte's review against another edition

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...