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Boston, mid-17th century: Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is
led through prison doors to her public shaming by her censorious
Puritan neighbors. Holding her illegitimate child to her breast and
bearing a bright scarlet letter â€A†embroidered on her bodice,
Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her
child in this harsh and unforgiving community. When her missing
spouse reappears and takes up residence in town under an assumed
identity, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation between
the truly moral and the merely religious.Â
Tales of Greek mythology have entertained countless generations of
young readers with their accounts of brave heroes and heroines and
the marvels and monsters that they encounter. This edition of Greek
Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys features six classic tales
written especially for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It includes
the legends of Pandora and the Box of Troubles, King Midas and the
Golden Touch, Perseus and the Medusa, Philemon and Baucis,
Bellerophon and Pegasus, and the labors of Hercules, all
illustrated magnificently in color by Walter Crane.
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Gothic Horror Short Stories (Hardcover)
Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Frederic Benson, Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, …
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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One of the most influential novels in American literature, The
Scarlet Letter is the story of a Puritan woman who conceives a
child through an affair and her subsequent struggle to overcome
sin, shame, and social stigma. Edited by Justine S. Murison, the
Norton Library edition features the text of the third (1850)
edition of the novel, with explanatory endnotes and an introduction
that situates the work in its historical and literary contexts.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the
novel, published in 1851 by Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Robert S.
Levine's insightful introduction, revised headnotes, expanded
explanatory footnotes and note on the text and annotations. A
generous selection of carefully chosen primary materials-three of
them new to the Second Edition-intended to provide readers with
essential backgrounds on the novel's major themes. An extensive
selection of critical responses to The House of the Seven Gables
from the time of its publication to the present day, including
eight new to the Second Edition. A chronology of Nathaniel
Hawthorne's life and work and a selected bibliography. About the
Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years,
Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is
right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated
text, contexts and criticism-helps students to better understand,
analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range
of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in
digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources
students need.
HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will,
the pang of it will be always in her heart.' A tale of sin,
punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral
rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced
with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the
first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's
strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh
sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of
the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his
heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the
innocent.
In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of
her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock.
For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is
made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress.
But though she bears the stigma of the shame her peers would confer
upon her, others feel the guilt for her transgression more acutely,
notably the pious Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the confessor with
whom Hester and Pearl's destinies are intimately bound up. First
published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical study of guilt
and sin has since been lauded as the most important work of fiction
by its distinguished author and a landmark of American literature.
Delia Bacon (1811-59), an American writer and dramatist, is
remembered today almost exclusively for this controversial 1857
book, in which she argues that the plays of 'Shakspere' were in
fact written by a coterie of highly educated aristocrats, including
Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser, for the purpose
of disseminating a philosophy, encoded in the works, which was not
intended to be understood by the popular audiences to whom they
were ostensibly directed. The book considers the intellectual
context in which the plays were written, arguing that radical
changes in science and society craved by Bacon were impossible
under the despotism of Queen Elizabeth, but could be infiltrated
into the consciousness of the elite through drama. Delia Bacon
enjoyed the friendship of Hawthorne (who wrote a preface to this
book), and Emerson (who thought her a 'genius', but mad). The work
sparked a debate on the authorship of the plays which still
continues.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling,
mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark
side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. Hester
Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the
eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin.
Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of
an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father.
Hester's refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But
she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is
forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the
scarlet letter 'A' for 'Adulteress'
This second edition also includes: revised and expanded explanatory
footnotes, a new preface and a note on the text by Leland S.
Person; key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that
suggest the close relationship between his private and public
writings, and seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael
Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan
and John F. Birk. A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected
Bibliography is also included.
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is the mid-seventeenth century in Boston. Hester Prynne,
dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public
shaming by members of the Puritan town. Holding her illegitimate
child to her breast, and bearing a bright scarlet letter “Aâ€
embroidered on her bodice, Hester must now struggle to create a new
life for herself and her child within this censorious community.
When her missing spouse reappears, reveals himself to her, and
takes up residence in town under an assumed identity, Hester, her
daughter, her disguised husband, and her clandestine lover are
forced to abide in close quarters—leading quiet, anguished lives.
But the secrets eat away at their keepers, and only the most
resolute, the most spiritual—rather than the merely
religious—will survive the fall-out from the affair's
exposure. Â
A dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a seld divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl. As Nina Baym writes in her Introduction, The Scarlet Letter was not written as realistic, historical fiction, but as a "romance", a creation of the imagination that discloses the truth of the human heart.
For nearly a century and a half, Hawthorne's masterpiece has mesmerized readers and critics alike. One of the greatest American novels, its themes of sin, guilt and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart. New introductory Note.
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works
of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book
includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students
and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding
of the writer and their work. Set two centuries before Hawthorne's
own time, The Scarlet Letter follows heroine Hester Prynne who is
compelled by her Puritan society to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on
her clothes as a symbol of her sin: adultery. Accompanied by
colorful and flawed characters, including the Reverend Arthur
Dimmesdale who broods over a long-hidden secret, and Hester's
husband Roger Chillingsworth who thirsts for vengeance, The Scarlet
Letter, America's first psychological novel, is a masterpiece that
explores humanity's unending struggles with pride, sin, and guilt.
Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and
explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work,
the author's personal history, and what impact this book had on
subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions
that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading
recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.
Hawthorne's greatest romance, "The Scarlet Letter," is often
simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and
redemption. In his introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that
"The Scarlet Letter" is a serious historical novel. If Hawthorne's
fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester and Dimmesdale to
the limits of seventeenth-century possibility, it nonetheless looks
forward to the better, brighter world of Margaret Fuller and Fanny
Fern, of Charles Fourier and John Humphrey Noyes.
The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative
text of "The Scarlet Letter" in the "Centenary Edition of the Works
of Nathaniel Hawthorne."
Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years'
separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for
adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear
a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover
the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while
Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from
a society determined to condemn them both. A smash hit in its day,
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of
three New England settlers at odds with the seventeenth-century
Puritan society in which they live, and remains one of literature's
most evocative portraits of a love triangle. This beautiful
Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Scarlet Letter
features an afterword by broadcaster Jonty Claypole.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'Ah, but let her cover the mark as
she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.' A tale of
sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral
rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced
with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the
first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's
strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh
sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of
the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his
heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the
innocent.
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The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Henry Claridge; Notes by Henry Claridge; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction 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 mysterious tale of crime, witchcraft and the supernatural. The
House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, reeking
of past sins and malevolent threats. The Pyncheon family that lives
there has inherited the curse of centuries-old accusations of
witchcraft, and is haunted by the ghosts of the sinful dead who
still live within the terrifying shadows of the imposing house. A
truly ingenious blend of the supernatural and the romantic,
Hawthorne weaves a gothic tale that threatens to impale the family
and the local townsfolk with its destructive power. FLAME TREE 451:
From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to
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scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist
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biography and glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.
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