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An elegant storytelling layout highlighting foundational literary works that shaped narrative formats.
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The Scarlet Letter
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By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields • Published undefined
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's brilliant examination of public shame and personal guilt in Puritan New England.
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Moby-Dick
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By Herman Melville, Harper & Brothers • Published undefined
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Herman Melville's monumental epic of obsession, fate, and the sea, widely considered a peak of American literature.