TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nathaniel Hawthorne
TI  - The Scarlet Letter
SN  - 0-451-52522-1
PY  - 1959///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Penguin Group
N2  - 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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