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Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864

The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne. - London : Alma Classics, 2015. - 226 pages : portraits (black and white) ; 20 cm.

Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America’s literary landmarks.

ISBN: 9781847494214 (paperback) : Đ4.99

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB555628 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 017172730 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction
Illegitimate children--Fiction
Women immigrants--Fiction
Married women--Fiction
Puritans--Fiction
Adultery--Fiction
Revenge--Fiction
Clergy--Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Boston, MA--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction
Psychological fiction

LC Class. No.: PS1868 / .A1 2015