A young woman, publicly scorned for bearing an illegitimate child, refuses to be vanquished by the seventeenth-century Boston community.
Like all of Hawthorne's novels, "The Scarlet Letter" has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story.
She is required to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress when she is in front of the townspeople to shame her. The letter "A" stands for adulteress, although this is never said explicitly in the novel.
Hester is being led to the scaffold, where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery.
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork".
The Scarlet Letter, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. It is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. The novel is set in a 17th-century village in Puritan New England.
You should grab it and read it to experience it yourself. Like all of Hawthorne's novels, "The Scarlet Letter" has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story.
You should grab it and read it to experience it yourself. Like all of Hawthorne's novels, "The Scarlet Letter" has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story.
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Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
In 1836 , Hawthorne worked as an editor for the Boston - based The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge . In 1837 , he published Twice - Told Tales , a collection of stories that finally brought him recognition .
ATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was born in Salem , Massachusetts , on July 4 , 1804 , into a prominent Puritan family . Hawthorne's father died at sea in 1808 , and his mother took to a life of mournful , eccentric seclusion and genteel poverty .
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's transcendental novel concerning the triumph of the soul in the face of religious intolerance continues to be one of the most widely read works in the classroom today.
The Scarlet Letter: An Annotated Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism
A story of love, guilt, sin and redemption played out against the stark background of Puritan New England.
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.
A tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel is at once a sombre, almost gothic romance, and a pungent critique of societies that seek to overly restrict human activity.
Each Enriched Classic Edition Includes: * A concise introduction that gives readers important background information * A chronology of the author's life and work * A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context ...