Book
The scarlet letter : a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; with an introduction by Alfred Kazin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679417316 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xxvii, 273 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, [1992]
- Distributor: Distributed by Random House, [1992]
- Copyright: ©1992
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii). |
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| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Hawth | 31681010331692 | FICTION | Available | - |
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Presents the classic nineteenth-century work focusing on the consequences of adultery and unacknowledged guilt in Puritan New England - Random House, Inc.
Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter Pearl is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearlâs father. Hesterâs refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter âAâ for âAdulteress.â
The story of Hester Prynneâfound out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and her vengeance-seeking husbandâpossesses a reality heightened by Hawthorneâs pure human sympathy and his unmixed devotion to his supposedly fallen but fundamentally innocent heroine.
In its moral force and the beauty of its conciliations, The Scarlet Letter rightly deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, the novel that announced an American literature equal to any in the world.
