The scarlet letter
Subtitle: an authoritative text, essays in criticism and scholarship
By: [Nathaniel Hawthorne] ; edited by Seymour Gross ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gross, Seymour Lee, 1926-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; 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: In a time when adultery is punishable by death, Hester Prynne becomes involved in a risky and scandalous affair with her town's handsome minister and bears his illegitimate child. For this grievous offense, she is condemned to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her breast and endure the mockery of her community forever. Explores the timeless conflict between private truth and public appearance and the choice between sin and salvation.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [435]-440.