The scarlet letter : a romance
by
 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Title
The scarlet letter : a romance

Author
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

ISBN
9780142437261

Personal Author
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2003.

Physical Description
xxxi, 238 pages ; 20 cm.

Series
Penguin classics
 
Penguin classics.

General Note
The text is that of the Centenary ed. of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne published by Ohio State University Press.

Abstract
A young woman, publicly scorned for bearing an illegitimate child, refuses to be vanquished by the seventeenth-century Boston community.

Subject Term
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
 
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
 
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
 
Married women -- Fiction.
 
Puritans -- Fiction.
 
Adultery -- Fiction.
 
Revenge -- Fiction.
 
Clergy -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.

Electronic Access
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003269788-b.html
 
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003269788-d.html


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