The Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  • : $11.99 AUD
  • : 9781847494214
  • : Alma Books Ltd
  • : Alma Classics
  • : June 2015
  • : 11.99
  • : July 2015
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  • : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Barcode 9781847494214
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Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter "A" as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne's tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America's literary landmarks.