The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Set in the 17th century New England, Hawthorne's greatest novel is the tale of Hester Prynne, found guilty of adultery by a Puritan society. Her punishment is to stand exposed on the scaffold, and subsequently to wear a scarlet letter A for life, as a symbol and reminder of her transgression. The identity of her lover remains a secret to the community for several years, until Hawthorne's arresting climax.
Brooding yet serene, 'The Scarlet Letter' possesses, in the words of Henry James, "the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art". It also has a special place in American literature, as James oserved: "Something might at last be sent to Europe as axquisite in quality as anything that had been received, and the best of it was that the thing was absolutely American:
it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England."
JAMES HAWTHORNE was born in Salem, Massachusets, in 1804, into one of the oldest New England families. Following a first self-published novel, 'Fanshawe'(1...
Brooding yet serene, 'The Scarlet Letter' possesses, in the words of Henry James, "the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art". It also has a special place in American literature, as James oserved: "Something might at last be sent to Europe as axquisite in quality as anything that had been received, and the best of it was that the thing was absolutely American:
it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England."
JAMES HAWTHORNE was born in Salem, Massachusets, in 1804, into one of the oldest New England families. Following a first self-published novel, 'Fanshawe'(1...
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