The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Macmillan Collector's Library, 120) - Hardcover

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150982796X ISBN 13: 9781509827961

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017

Synopsis

Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both.

A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England settlers at odds with the seventeenth-century Puritan society in which they live, and remains one of literature's most evocative portraits of a love triangle.

This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Scarlet Letter features an afterword by broadcaster Jonty Claypole.

About this title

Review:

"Readable edition with a strong, clear introduction. It will be most helpful to my students." --Robert Donahoo, Sam Houston State University

From the Publisher:

Contains an 8-page plate section with long-unavailable pictures and drawings relating to Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter.

Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated

Includes a 10,000-word section on Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and works, with a longer chapter on The Scarlet Letter, anecdotes, critical perspectives, adaptations and spin-offs

Lavishly produced on natural, high-quality paper, and affordably priced

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 150982796X
• ISBN 13: 9781509827961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304