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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Description for The Scarlet Letter
Paperback.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES
Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.
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 Pearl's father. Hester's 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784878566
SKU
9781784878566
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Ref
99-1
About Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. One of his descendants was John Hathorne who presided over the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Hawthorne's father died when he was four years old. He was educated at Bowdoin College where he became friends with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He published his first novel, Fanshawe in 1828 ... Read more
Reviews for The Scarlet Letter
An extraordinary work of the imagination that burns from page to page with the fierce simplicity of scripture and an almost cinematic clarity of vision. The Scarlet Letter is an astounding book full of intense symbolism, as strange and haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe—Guardian Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite in quality as ... Read more