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I told them the novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter. Some cite its subject matter, the American dream, to justify this distinction. We in ancient countries have our past--we obcess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future. - Azar Nafisi