THE SCARLET LETTERby Nathaniel Hawthorne
โ Scribed by Review by: David Peck
- Book ID
- 124733875
- Publisher
- University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 326 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0191-4847
- DOI
- 10.2307/20709792
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for the novels "The Scarlet Letter" (1850) and "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851). H
SUMMARY: Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynn