The Scarlet Letter (Signet Classic)
An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her vengeful husband come together in this classic novel of sin and salvation in the Puritan world of 17th-century Boston. Features an updated bibliography and an Introduction by Brenda Wineapple, a leading contemporary Hawthorn scholar. Reissue.
An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her vengeful husband come together in this classic novel of sin and salvation in the Puritan world of 17th-century Boston. Features an updated bibliography and an Introduction by Brenda Wineapple, a leading contemporary Hawthorn scholar. Reissue.
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ISBN:
9780451526083 (0451526082)
Publish date: October 2nd 1999
Publisher: Signet Classics (New American Library)
Edition language: English
This book was amazing! I never even saw the ending happening. I mean for the man who was prosecuting the mother for having a "bastard child" was her father??? It was crazy! I suppose it was wriiten so long ago that I didn't see it coming.
I read this book in school. I wasn't crazy about it then, but it was a little better the second time. I honestly don't remember much about when I read it in school or the discussions about meanings that we probably had. I still got bored some, but Pearl kept me more interested this time. I like the ...
Goodreads summary: In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet "A" stitched conspicuously upon her dress. But though she...
Plot summary (as if you don't already know) Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly di...
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on...
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