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After this author rebutted a harsh review from the Literary World, another writer declared that this author’s heart “beat in my ribs and mine in yours.” This author’s death inspired the poem “Monody” from a writer who posed as an “a Virginian spending July in Vermont” to praise a story collection. This author described the “absolute torture of the breast” of his character Coverdale refusing to run away from a farm with the philanthropist Hollingsworth. The shield on Elizabeth Pain’s grave inspired this author to depict a grave for two with a simple (*) red-on-black symbol. A short story by this author describes how Beatrice dies after drinking (10[1]-5[1])the “cure” for her (10[1])poisonous body. (10[2])This dedicatee of Moby-Dick described a man who refuses to acknowledge his (10[1])child Pearl on a scaffold, but later reveals a symbol seared on his chest. For 10 points, Herman Melville loved what author of the Scarlet Letter? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
<GE, American Literature>
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Raymond ChenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Toronto B10610
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawa AbsolomabsolomabsolomWaterloo Basic106-5
Nick EdwardsMcGill AWaterloo Cloze11010
Mattias EhatammWaterloo AspidistraToronto A11210
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha11210
Halee CareyMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiCarleton A12410
Micah ColmanWaterloo BasicOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom15110

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