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.
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Publisher: Alma Books LtdISBN: 9781847494214Weight: 229 gDimensions: 198 x 128 mm
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One of the greatest allegories in all literature. - D.H. Lawrence The books of Hawthorne... should be sold by the hundred thousand,and read by the million; and admired by everyone who is capable of admiration. - Herman Melville We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. - Edgar Allan Poe The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. - Henry James
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