The Scarlet Letter

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The Scarlet Letter
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Literature

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edition year 1992
Binding Cloth
Illustrator David Frampton
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 256
Dimensions 23.5 × 15.4 cm

Edition details

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Introduced by Russell Banks. 17 integrated woodcuts by David Frampton. Bound in grey-black linen blocked with a cover design in red and gold by Frampton. Red endleaves. Black slipcase. 23.5x15.4cm. 256pp.

About the book

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is set in seventeenth-century Puritan New England and follows Hester Prynne, who gives birth to a child outside marriage and is publicly condemned by her community. Forced to wear the scarlet letter "A" as a mark of adultery, Hester refuses to reveal the identity of her child's father. Hawthorne explores guilt, hypocrisy, punishment, secrecy and individual conscience, contrasting Hester's strength with the hidden suffering of those around her. The novel remains one of the central works of American literature.

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