Hawthorne Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge Senior Lecturer School of English University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime sin guilt punishment and expiation set in the rigid moral climate of 17th - century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However it is not so much her harsh sentence but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Author(s): Hawthorne Nathaniel
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Barcode: 9781853260292
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 5/5/1992
Series: Wordsworth Classics
(Editor: Carabine, Dr Keith (University of Kent at Canterbury))
Category: Classic Fiction