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Dcerninghearts.com presents great works in Western literature with Joseph Pierce, who is an internationally acclaimed

author and literary scholar whose work explores the great writers of Western literature

through a Catholic and classical lens. He has written numerous best-selling books on figures

such as Shakespeare, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Oscar Wilde, Alexander

Solzhenitsyn, and El Arbaudaq. A frequent lecture and longtime contributor to EWTN,

he serves as visiting professor of literature at Ave Maria University and as editor of St. Austin Review.

Great Works in Western Liter literature with Joseph Pierce.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

A key figure in the development of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was also profoundly

influenced by his ancestors and the Christianity that underscored their Puritan heritage.

A literary classic, The Scarlet Letter, presents a profound meditation on the nature of sin,

repentance, and redemption,

and how such Christian concepts may be integrated into American democracy.

We now begin our discussion on Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter.

Let's talk about the Scarlet Letter. It has been termed as one of the great tragedies of American literature, and it has been chosen

by the Ignatius Critical Edition.

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