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The Scarlet Letter (American Library)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (American Library)

a romance

Longman (Sep 10, 1998)
9780140390193
| Paperback
272 pages | 107 x 175 mm | English
Dewey 813.3
LC Classification PS1868 .A1 1983
LC Control No. 82024541

Genre

  • Historical Fiction
  • Psychological Fiction

Subject

  • Adultery - Fiction
  • Boston (Mass.) - History - Fiction
  • Clergy - Fiction
  • Illegitimate Children - Fiction
  • Married Women - Fiction
  • Puritans - Fiction
  • Revenge - Fiction
  • Triangles (Interpersonal Relations) - Fiction
  • Women Immigrants - Fiction

Plot

The familiar characters of Hawthorne's dark tale of pride and guilt in colonial New England are given new and added immediacy in the 24 wood engravings by master illustrator Barry Moser.