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The Christmas Banquet
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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'The Christmas Banquet' is a classic example of Hawthorne's preoccupation with the darker side of human nature. This quick read has a man giving cash to host ten of the most miserable souls in his will, and each is worse than the man who organized it.
'The Christmas Banquet' is a classic example of Hawthorne's preoccupation with the darker side of human nature. This quick read has a man giving cash to host ten of the most miserable souls in his will, and each is worse than the man who organized it.
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assigned for horror lit course.
It's depressing, a little creepy, but also very intriguing and makes the reader want to discover the secret of the young man. It's also interesting to see the way that misery, and miserable people are examined and even, at times, laughed at (but not maliciously, it's kind of weird). There's real emp
First published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, XIV (January, 1844), “The Christmas Banquet” shares its subtitle—”from the unpublished “Allegories of the Heart”—with “Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent,” another Hawthorne story of the period. In it the protagonist Roderick Elliston,
This is a good creeper to read around the winter holidays.