[AnAmericanMother]

Of course I've read "Daisy Miller" and "The Turn of the Screw" - also that short story about the doppelganger or reflection in the mirror . . . can't recall the title.

But is "The Confidence Man" really better than "Young Goodman Brown"?

[Borges]

'Young Goodman Brown' is amateurish. 'Oh My faith is gone!'. I've never read TCM but the short fiction (Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno) is superlative and of course Moby Dick is one of the great achievement of the Western culture.