The Scarlet Letter: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic

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Penguin, Nov 25, 2008 - Fiction - 272 pages
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.

Enriched eBook Features Editor Monika Elbert provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic:

* Filmography

* Nineteenth-Century Reviews of The Scarlet Letter

* Chronology of Hawthorne's Life and Times (with Images)

* Historical Time Line: Seventeenth-Century England and New England (Massachusetts Bay Colony)

* Witchcraft and The Scarlet Letter (with Images and Martha Corey’s Testimony)

* Puritan Pleasures and Punishments (with Images)

* Puritan Child Rearing and Puritan Children

* Puritan Fashion and The Scarlet Letter: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre (with Images)

* Hester Prynne and Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movements

* Bibliography and Further Reading

* Images of The Scarlet Letter

* Enriched eBook Notes

The enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.

 

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Contents

Introduction by Nina Baym
Notes by Thomas E Connolly
Penguin Enriched eBook Classics Features
Filmography
NineteenthCentury Reviews of The Scarlet Letter
Chronology of Hawthornes Life and Times with Images
Puritan Pleasures and Punishments with Images
The Good the Bad and
Hester Prynne and NineteenthCentury Womens Rights Movements
Bibliography and Further Reading
Enriched eBook Notes

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2008)

Hawthorne was a novelist and short-story writer, born in Salem, MA. Educated at Bowdon College, he shut himself away for 12 years to learn to write fiction. His first major success was the novel The Scarlet Letter (1850), still the best known of his works. Other books include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Snow Image (1852), and a campaign biography of his old schoolfriend, President Franklin Pierce, on whose inauguration Hawthorne became consul at Liverpool (1853--7). Only belatedly recognized in his own country, he continued to write articles and stories, notably those for the Atlantic Monthly, collected as Our Old Home

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Scarlet Letter: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
Penguin Classics Deluxe
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
EditorMonica E. Elbert
ContributorsNina Baym, Thomas E. Connolly, Monica E. Elbert
PublisherPenguin, 2008
ISBN1440656487, 9781440656484
Length272 pages
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Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
  
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