The Scarlet Letter: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

The Scarlet Letter: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

by NathanielHawthorne (Author)

Synopsis

This is a dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a self divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl.

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Format: Illustrated::Deckle Edge
Pages: 256
Edition: Special
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 05 Nov 2009

ISBN 10: 0143105442
ISBN 13: 9780143105442