The scarlet letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited with an introduction by Brian Harding.
Contributors: Harding, Brian
Series: The World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Illegitimate children -- Fiction.; Women immigrants -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; Puritans -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; Revenge -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Hester Prynne, a young wife in colonial New England, is sentenced to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing as a sign of her sin of adultery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-302).