The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback)
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- Price
- R 94
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9781593080129
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 1 Sep 2003
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sterling Pub Co Inc
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Dimensions
- 171 x 108 x 19mm (136g)
Annotation
Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan
community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product
of an adulterous relationship.
Summary
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America’s first psychological novel, Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love,
crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around
a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of
three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an
ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment of her sin in
humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected public
figure who is inwardly tormented by long-hidden guilt; and the
malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband—a man who seethes
with an Ahab-like lust for vengeance.
The landscape of this classic novel is uniquely American, but the themes it explores are universal—the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek tragedy, The Scarlet Letter brilliantly illuminates the truth that lies deep within the human heart.
Nancy Stade is trained as a lawyer and has worked in the federal government and the private sector. She currently lives in Mexico, where she is working on a novel.
The landscape of this classic novel is uniquely American, but the themes it explores are universal—the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek tragedy, The Scarlet Letter brilliantly illuminates the truth that lies deep within the human heart.
Nancy Stade is trained as a lawyer and has worked in the federal government and the private sector. She currently lives in Mexico, where she is working on a novel.
Fiction
- General Subject
- Literature/Classics
- BISAC Subject 1
- Fiction / Classics
- Library Subject 1
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Fiction.
- Library Subject 2
- Illegitimate children; Fiction.
- Library Subject 3
- Women immigrants; Fiction.
- Dewey Classification
- 813/.3
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