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The Scarlet Letter (Signet classics)
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The Scarlet Letter (Signet classics) Mass market paperback - 1959

by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Foreword-Leo Marx

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Signet Classics, 8/1/1959. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 4x0x6. Paperback book in good condition.
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  • Title The Scarlet Letter (Signet classics)
  • Author Nathaniel Hawthorne; Foreword-Leo Marx
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 8/1/1959
  • Bookseller's Inventory # JUNE280074208
  • ISBN 9780451525222 / 0451525221
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.89 x 4.22 x 0.67 in (17.50 x 10.72 x 1.70 cm)
  • Reading level 410
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88063510
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time.

From the publisher

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. He lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride in a prosperous past. His boyhood was, in most respects, pleasant and normal. In 1825 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and he returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his Twice-Told Tales (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. The Scarlet Letter (1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by The House of the Seven Gables (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.