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A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time. As Kathryn Harrison points out in her Introduction, Hester is "the herald of...
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne AND The Awakening by Kate Chopin written respectively by authors Nathaniel Hawthorne & Kate Chopin is considered by many to be two of the most widely read books of all time. These two popular titles will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne AND The Awakening by Kate Chopin is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature...
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Paperback
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.
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It is a little remarkable that-though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside and to my personal friends-an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me in addressing the public.
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Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Arabic thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was edited for three audiences. The first includes Arabic-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL� or TOEIC� preparation program. The...
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Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Massachusetts, this tale of an adulterous entanglement resulting in an illegitimate birth engendered the first true heroine of American fiction.
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Hawthorne's greatest romance, "The Scarlet Letter," is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that "The Scarlet Letter" is a serious historical novel. If Hawthorne's fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester and Dimmesdale to the limits of seventeenth-century possibility, it nonetheless looks forward to the better, brighter world of Margaret Fuller and Fanny Fern, of Charles Fourier and John Humphrey Noyes...
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Critical commentary and review exercises accompany the complete text of Hawthorne's classic work on the consequences of adultery and unacknowledged guilt in Puritan New England.
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Detailed Summary, Vol. II
From the same album The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Detailed Summary
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Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Brazilian Portuguese thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was edited for three audiences. The first includes Brazilian Portuguese-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL� or TOEIC...
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The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his magnum opus. Set in Puritan Boston in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores the issues of grace, legalism, sin, and guilt. Continue reading...
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The scene is 17th century Boston. Beautiful, dark-haired Hester Prynne, the heroine, gives birth to an illegitimate child. Persecuted by the church and the puritanical townspeople she is placed on trial for adultery. Proud, strong, intensely loyal, she defiantly refuses to name the father of the child. Her infuriated persecutors condemn her to a lifetime of public ridicule by forcing her to sew a scarlet letter "A" on the bosom of all her clothes. The father is eventually found out and the townspeople...
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First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history."
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - MonkeyNotes Summary/Study Guide RTF
Sample RTF MonkeyNotes We are continuing to create samples for our summaries, but we have not gotten to this one yet. This sample version of another MonkeyNote demonstrates the general format. Right click on the link and select Save Target as... or Save Link as...(for Netscape) to save the file to your hard drive. You may then open the file with your word processor.
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