The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Barcode 9780143107668
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Release Date: 24/03/2016
Genre: Fiction
Sub-Genre: Classic Fiction
Label: Penguin Classics
Contributors: Nina Baym (Introduction by)
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction. The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder
Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.