Henry Claridge Introduction (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Wordsworth Classics). A troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England, Hawthorne's novel centers on Hester Prinn, the young mother of an illegitimate child who confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's incisive climax. Bibliography,Notes. 203p. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Wordsworth Classics). A troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England, Hawthorne's novel centers on Hester Prinn, the young mother of an illegitimate child who confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's incisive climax. Bibliography,Notes. 203p. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 203 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Small indent on fore edge. Robert Mathias (Cover Design); A.C. Michael (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).…