The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback)
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9780553210095
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 1 Feb 1981
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam Classic & Loveswept
- Edition
- Reissue
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 244
- Dimensions
- 178 x 114 x 19mm (136g)
Annotation
- A young woman, publicly scorned for bearing an illegitimate child, refuses to be vanquished by the Puritanical seventeenth-century Boston community in which she lives. Reissue.
- A young woman, publicly scorned for bearing an illegitimate child, refuses to be vanquished by the seventeenth-century Boston community
Summary
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative
writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter reaches to our
nation's historical and moral roots for the material of
great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the
novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate
act has on the lives of three members of the community:
the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend
Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.
With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
Fiction
- General Subject
- Literature/Classics
- BISAC Subject 1
- Fiction / Classics
- BISAC Subject 2
- Fiction / Classics
- BIC Classification 1
- Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
- Library Subject 1
- Historical fiction
- Library Subject 2
- Adultery - Fiction
- Library Subject 3
- Women - Massachusetts - Fiction
- Dewey Classification
- 813/.3
Author Bio
Hawthorne was a novelist and short-story writer, born in Salem, MA.
Educated at Bowdon College, he shut himself away for 12 years to
learn to write fiction. His first major success was the novel The
Scarlet Letter (1850), still the best known of his works. Other
books include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Snow Image
(1852), and a campaign biography of his old schoolfriend, President
Franklin Pierce, on whose inauguration Hawthorne became consul at
Liverpool (1853--7). Only belatedly recognized in his own country,
he continued to write articles and stories, notably those for the
Atlantic Monthly, collected as Our Old Home
Review Quotes
"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence
of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley