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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson T-Shirt: Emerson on Giving Thanks, a Thanksgiving Post

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Our Ralph Waldo Emerson t-shirt celebrates a man who, if he said something on a topic, probably said it better than anyone else. Here's a quote of Emerson's about being thankful that we wanted to share. We first heard on one of our favorite radio programs, The Writers' Almanac: “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” What we could possibly add to that sentiment we don't know, except to wish you...

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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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