Monday, January 19, 2015
A New Circle in Hell
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), "The Devil in Manuscript," The New-England Magazine (November, 1835), rpt. in The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852):
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Now, what more appropriate torture would Dante himself have contrived, for the sinner who perpetrates a bad book, than to be continually turning over the manuscript?