The scarlet letter: text, sources, criticism
By: [by] Kenneth S. Lynn.
Contributors: Lynn, Kenneth Schuyler, ed.
Series: Harbrace sourcebooks
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
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 18th century Boston, a Puritan girl is condemned to wear the letter "A" for bearing an illegitimate daughter.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 217. Bibliographical footnotes.