The Scarlet Letter (Alma Classics Evergreens): Nathaniel Hawthorne - Softcover

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847494218 ISBN 13: 9781847494214

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2015

Synopsis

Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Scarlet Letter is here presented with an extensive section on Hawthorne's life and works. Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter "A" as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne's tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America's literary landmarks.

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Scarlet Letter

Review:

One of the greatest allegories in all literature. -- D.H. Lawrence The books of Hawthorne... should be sold by the hundred thousand, and read by the million; and admired by everyone who is capable of admiration. -- Herman Melville We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. -- Edgar Allan Poe The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. -- Henry James

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847494218
• ISBN 13: 9781847494214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240