The Scarlet Letter

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 02 February 2023

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Om Books International
• Release : 15 January 2022

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne masterpiece, the Scarlet letter, set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay colony, is the tale of Hester Prynne ‘shame’ following the birth of a child whose father remains unidentified for the larger part of the narrative. Hester’s defiance in the face of expulsion and repudiation makes her a heroine ahead of her time. Pearl, the illegitimate daughter, Arthur Dimmesdale, the ‘cheating’ minister of church, Reverend John Wilson

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• Release : 28 August 2012

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss' Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle

• Author : Michael J. Colacurcio,Michael Colacurcio,Emory Elliot
• Publisher : CUP Archive
• Release : 31 October 1985

The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator, characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive metaphor of

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Broadview Press
• Release : 28 October 2004

Hawthorne’s story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet “A” as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne’s writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 02 February 2023

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Om Books International
• Release : 02 February 2023

Roger Chillingworth, an aging scholar, returns to Puritan Boston and finds a crowd gathered to witness an official punishment. He spots a young woman holding a baby, whom he recognises as his wife, Hester Prynne, standing on the platform. Hester has been found guilty of “the most sinful act”. She refuses to reveal the father of her child and so, is ordered to wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ for the rest of her life as a mark of shame.Hester

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Wordsworth Edition
• Release : 09 October 1995

Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth. With "The Scarlet

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 15 December 2009

Hawthorne’s greatest romance is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his Introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that it is also a serious historical novel. This edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
• Publisher : Transaction Publishers
• Release : 30 April 2013

"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols participate in the dynamics of culture, including the dynamics of constraint." With an approach that both reflects and contests developments in literary studies, Bercovitch explores these connections from two perspectives: first, he examines

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release : 23 August 2018

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adulteress Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is wracked with guilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge. The Scarlet Letter's symbolism helps create a powerful drama in Puritan Boston: a kiss, evil, sin, nature, the scarlet letter, and the punishing scaffold. Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece is a classic example of the human conflict between emotion and intellect.

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Wayne Josephson
• Publisher : Chadwick Publishing
• Release : 01 November 2009

Hester Prynne, a woman condemned for a sin of passion, must forever wear the scarlet letter "A" on her breast.

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 15 August 1989

The classic nineteenth-century work focuses on the consequences of adultery and unacknowledged guilt in Puritan New England

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Collector's Library
• Release : 02 February 2023

Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release : 14 September 2016

1652... Found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is punished by being forced to publicly wear the scarlet letter 'A' as a mark of her shame. Despite being imprisoned, Hester refuses to name her lover and father of her daughter. Her position becomes more desperate when a man calling himself Roger Chillingworth arrives in her cell... A story of guilt and revenge, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel is rightly acclaimed as a literary classic, and its themes remain as challenging today as they were