Ebook {Epub PDF} The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Come along, Madame Hester, and show your scarlet letter in the market–place!” A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern–browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. About The Scarlet Letter. Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren A stark 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. The Scarlet Letter begins with a prelude in which an unnamed narrator explains the novel's origin. While working at the Salem Custom House (a tax collection agency), the narrator discovered in the attic a manuscript accompanied by a beautiful scarlet letter "A." After the narrator lost his job, he decided to develop the story told in the manuscript into a novel.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. introductory to The Scarlet Letter, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom-House, and quenched its last smoking ember in the blood of a. The Scarlet Letter, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in The work centers on Hester Prynne, a married woman who is shunned after bearing a child out of wedlock but displays great compassion and resiliency. The novel is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne () was the first American author to make extensive use of historical material. Like his predecessor, James Fenimore Cooper, he was attempting to find and utilise distinctively American material, and in going back to the past, had appeared to have done it in a more genuine way, for American history could not but be American.

The Scarlet Letter (), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by The House of the Seven Gables (). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in The Scarlet Letter, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in The work centers on Hester Prynne, a married woman who is shunned after bearing a child out of wedlock but displays great compassion and resiliency. The novel is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. more.