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The Scarlet Letter

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Scarlet Letter

Contributors:

By (Author) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction and notes by Henry Claridge
Series edited by Dr Keith Carabine

ISBN:

9781853260292

Publisher:

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Imprint:

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Publication Date:

5th May 1992

UK Publication Date:

5th May 1992

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

813.3

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

224

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm

Weight:

144g

Description

This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax. AUTHOR: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer, born in Salem, Massachusetts. His works are based largely on historical events in New England, and 'The Scarlet Letter' remains his most popular work.

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