The Scarlet Letter
$27.22
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 February 2016
Summary
The Scarlet Letter
A canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta.
At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143107668 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143107666 |
| Author: | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 29 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
”[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy.” –Malcolm Cowley
“[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy.”—Malcolm Cowley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where he wrote the bulk of his masterful tales of colonial American history.
Tom Perrotta (foreword) is the author of two short story collections and six novels, including Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers, which has been adapted for television by HBO. He lives in Boston.
Robert Milder (introduction) is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of three books, including Hawthorne’s Habitations: A Literary Life.
Thomas E. Connolly (notes; 1918-2002) was a literary critic and professor of English at the University of Buffalo.
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