The Scarlet Letter

By: Material type: TextTextNew York, New York Penguin Group 1959Description: 256 pages 17 cmISBN:
  • 0-451-52522-1
Summary: An Ardent young woman, her cowardly lover and her aging, vengeful husband-these are the central characters in the stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh, Puritan world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of shame and redemption reveals Hawthorne's concern with the New England past and its influence on American attitudes. From his dramatic illumination of the struggles between mind and heart, dogma and self-reliance, he fashioned one of the masterpiece of fiction. "The one American literary work which comes as near to perfection as is granted a man to bring his achievements." -Arnold Bennett
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An Ardent young woman, her cowardly lover and
her aging, vengeful husband-these are the central
characters in the stark drama of the conflict
between passion and convention in the harsh,
Puritan world of seventeenth-century Boston.
Tremendously moving and rich in psychological
insight, this tragic novel of shame and redemption
reveals Hawthorne's concern with the New England
past and its influence on American attitudes.
From his dramatic illumination of the struggles
between mind and heart, dogma and self-reliance,
he fashioned one of the masterpiece of fiction.

"The one American literary work which comes as
near to perfection as is granted a man to
bring his achievements."
-Arnold Bennett

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