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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherWordsworth Editions, The Limited
ISBN-101853260290
ISBN-139781853260292
eBay Product ID (ePID)14965
Product Key Features
Book TitleScarlet Letter
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Literary
Publication Year1997
GenreFiction
AuthorNathanial Hawthorne
Book SeriesClassics Library
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight2.3 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal813/.3
SynopsisIntroduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax., A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed.