Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback)
Description
Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Scarlet Letter is here presented with an extensive section on Hawthorne's life and works.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9781847494214
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 15 Jun 2015
- Supply Source
- South Africa
Book
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd
- Series
- Alma Classics Evergreens
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Dimensions
- 198 x 128mm (229g)
Annotation
Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Scarlet Letter is here
presented with an extensive section on Hawthorne's life and works.
Summary
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.
Fiction
- General Subject
- Fiction
- BISAC Subject 1
- Fiction / Classics
- BIC Classification 1
- Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
- Library Subject 1
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Library Subject 2
- Puritans
- Library Subject 3
- Revenge
- Dewey Classification
- 813.3
- Readership
- General (US: Trade)
Author Bio
Inspired by the Puritan past of his native New England, Nathaniel
Hawthorne became a pivotal figure in the history of American
literature, notably with his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter.