The classic American novel,rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert MilderSet in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston,this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth.The mother of the child,Hester Prynne,is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780143107668Number of pages: 288Weight: 220 gDimensions: 194 x 126 x 20 mm
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"(Nathaniel Hawthorne) recaptured,for his New England,the essence of Greek tragedy." -Malcolm Cowley
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