The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
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The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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It is 1642 in Boston. Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by members of the Puritan town. Holding her illegitimate child to her breast, and bearing a bright scarlet letter "A" embroidered on her bodice, Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her child within this censorious community.

Though her husband is assumed dead, Hester's relationship with the father of her child is considered illicit. She is truly penitent, but her real crime seems to be her unwillingness to disclose the identity of her lover. When her missing spouse reappears, reveals himself to her, and takes up residence in town under an assumed identity, Hester, her daughter, her disguised husband, and her clandestine lover are forced to abide in close quarters—leading quiet, anguished lives. But the secrets eat away at their keepers, and only the most resolute of this forsaken foursome will thrive.

The Scarlet Letter met with widespread acclaim when it was published in 1850.

The novel explores the emerging transcendental movement and its core belief in a personal relationship with God, transplanted in the context of seventeenth-century Puritan society.

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Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Year
2015
ISBN
9781435160521
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Custom-House—Introductory
  6. I: The Prison-Door
  7. II: The Market-Place
  8. III: The Recognition
  9. IV: The Interview
  10. V: Hester at Her Needle
  11. VI: Pearl
  12. VII: The Governor’s Hall
  13. VIII: The Elf-Child and the Minister
  14. IX: The Leech
  15. X: The Leech and His Patient
  16. XI: The Interior of a Heart
  17. XII: The Minister’s Vigil
  18. XIII: Another View of Hester
  19. XIV: Hester and the Physician
  20. XV: Hester and Pearl
  21. XVI: A Forest Walk
  22. XVII: The Pastor and His Parishioner
  23. XVIII: A Flood of Sunshine
  24. XIX: The Child at the Brook-Side
  25. XX: The Minister in a Maze
  26. XXI: The New England Holiday
  27. XXII: The Procession
  28. XXIII: The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
  29. XXIV: Conclusion