Scarlet Letter.
Title:
Scarlet Letter.
Author:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
ISBN:
9781775563501
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (392 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Introductory to "The Scarlet Letter" -- I. The Prison Door -- II. The Market-Place -- III. The Recognition -- IV. The Interview -- V. Hester at Her Needle -- VI. Pearl -- VII. The Governor's Hall -- VIII. The Elf-Child and the Minister -- IX. The Leech -- X. The Leech and His Patient -- XI. The Interior of a Heart -- XII. The Minister's Vigil -- XIII. Another View of Hester -- XIV. Hester and the Physician -- XV. Hester and Pearl -- XVI. A Forest Walk -- XVII. The Pastor and His Parishioner -- XVIII. A Flood of Sunshine -- XIX. The Child at the Brookside -- XX. The Minister in a Maze -- XXI. The New England Holiday -- XXII. The Procession -- XXIII. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter -- XXIV. Conclusion.
Abstract:
In the puritanical Boston of the 17th Century, a woman gives birth after committing adultery. That woman, Hester Prynne, choses to create a new life for herself in the face of adversity rather than succumb to what is expected of her. She will not name the father. Her decision opens up the tension between religious life and the true grace of God, and between personal guilt, religious sin and legal guilt. The novel is prefaced by a "real" account of the author finding notes on...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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