num_pages: 400
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Scarlet Letter
titlecomplete: The Scarlet Letter
characters: Roger Chillingworth, Mistress Hibbins, Arthur Dimmesdale, Governor Bellingham, Hester Prynne, Pearl Prynne
genres: Read For School, Historical Fiction, Historical, School, Novels, Literature, High School, Classic Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 840847
places: Massachusetts, The United States of America, Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: Simon & Schuster