Portraits of the Authors as Young and Old (Wo)Men

July 5, 2013 by Christina

I had the fortune of the day off from my internship today and spent it at the National Portrait Gallery. In between exhibits feature the portraits of modern-day, common people, Civil War generals, and political figures were portraits of beloved (and not so beloved) American writers. Henry James, of course, being the exception to this having been born in New York City but becoming a British citizen the year before his death in 1916. I instagramed the eight that I […]

Categories: Bookish Notes • Tags: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgard Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Toni Morrison

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

December 16, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — print. Borders Classics, 2004. Originally published 1850. 203 pgs. Purchased. The first time I read Hawthorne’s novel was in ninth grade. It wasn’t assigned reading for my class but rather I was intrigued by another student’s project on the book hanging in my English teacher’s classroom. Hawthorne’s novel was never assigned as required reading and I doubt it will be assigned in any of my classes this or subsequent semesters. The language of this novel makes it difficult […]

Categories: 101 Great Books, 2011 Reads, AP Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Fiction, New England, North America, Readalong, United States • Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne