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Happy Literary Cyber Thanksgiving - A Thank You From Novel-T

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Happy Literary Cyber Thanksgiving - A Thank You From Novel-T

Novel-T understands budget and schedule concerns when planning for holiday gifts. That's why we offer you a chance to save the whole weekend! Now through 11:59 PM EST on Monday (11/30/15), YOU get to choose how to save. At checkout, use discount code LiteraryThanks15 to receive free domestic shipping within the United States OR use CyberThanks15 for $10 off your overall purchase. Choose the savings best for YOU this year. As you might've read, a limited print run returns some familiar names for the holidays. Novel-T's excited to welcome back William Shakespeare, Tom Sawyer, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe (and his Raven),...

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And We're Back! Literary T-Shirt Jerseys are BACK IN STOCK!

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And We're Back! Literary T-Shirt Jerseys are BACK IN STOCK!

  Yes, we're back! And no, gentle reader, we do not simply mean a new blog entry. We've heeded your whispers and hints. We here at Novel-T are happy to oblige! Need a shirt to represent a specific kind of literary obsession? A limited print run returns some familiar names for the holidays. Check in with Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and - more specifically - his Raven, Hester Prynne, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson and see what fits you (or your friends and family) best! These previously-sold-out stars are back on our shelves. Thanks to fans' requests, Novel-T aims to make that aforementioned fit even more...

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Hester Prynne T-Shirt: Hester Prynne the Puritan, Pearl Prynne the American, & Roger Chillingworth with the Wampanoag Indians

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It's nearly Thanksgiving, and as our thoughts turn to pilgrims and American Indians, we also think of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.   It's true that Hester Prynne's story is in many ways a symbol of the problematic nature of a rigidly moralistic society--particularly as becomes subject to its own myriad hypocrisies, inspired by collective feelings of guilt and moral superiority.  But Prynne's story seems to us as also a richly nuanced and complicated fable of the birth of the United States, a kind of unruly bastard child born of romantic rule-breaking, manifested as defiant passions. (How much does that...

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We love Lisa Brown's Three Panel Book Reviews, which appear monthly on SF Gate.  Here's an oldie but goodie (goody?) about the Canon's #2 hitter: 

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