Being in Latin America at Christmas, surrounded by omnipresent religious references, I figured it was as good a chance as any to read The Scarlet Letter.
As normally happens with 19th century novels, I was expecting to find it dated and hard to approach, but I was pleasantly surprised: the prose is light, the characters deep and the plot, ultimately, still highly relevant.
Obviously, I felt that a number of passages showed too much sympathy for Dimmesdale and that it would have been so much better had this been written by a woman (you don't say!), but utimately the book was thought-provoking and current beyond my hopes and expectations.
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