Derek Bartholomew’s Reviews > Twice-Told Tales > Status Update

I know a lot of Americans, having resented reading The Scarlet Letter in high school, have a certain antipathy towards Hawthorne.

I’ve read a lot of Goodreads reviews of people who have an intense dislike of his stories. I don’t share their opinions at all. Hawthorne, in my estimation, is one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, writer of US historical fiction.