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020			_a0-451-52522-1
040			_bEnglish _c107902
100			_aNathaniel Hawthorne
245			_aThe Scarlet Letter
264			_aNew York, New York _bPenguin Group _c1959
300			_a256 pages _c17 cm
520			_aAn 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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