The Scarlet Letter
Subtitle: An Annotated Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism
By: Edited by Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty [and] E. Hudson Long.
Contributors: Bradley, Sculley, 1897- ed.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Norton critical editions,
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
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. 374-375. Bibliographical footnotes.
"The text ... here printed is that of the first edition (March 1850). To this the editors have prefixed Hawthorne's brief preface to the second edition."