[PDF] The Scarlet Letter Om Illustrated Classics

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Om Books International
• Release Date : 2022-05-21
• ISBN : 9789385031656

Roger Chillingworth, an aging scholar, returns to Puritan Boston and finds a crowd gathered to witness an official punishment. He spots a young woman holding a baby, whom he recognises as his wife, Hester Prynne, standing on the platform. Hester has been found guilty of “the most sinful act”. She refuses to reveal the father of her child and so, is ordered to wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ for the rest of her life as a mark of shame.Hester

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Wordsworth Edition
• Release Date : 1995-10-09
• ISBN : 1853265683

Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth. With "The Scarlet

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Knickerbocker Press
• Release Date : 2015-02-27
• ISBN : 9781631060717

Because Hester Prynne commits adultery and refuses to name her lover, she must wear a scarlet "A" on the breast of her gown for the rest of her life. In the course of the book, a complex interrelationship develops between Hester, her lover, her husband and the daughter of her adulterous union.

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1851
• ISBN : OXFORD:590470741

• Author : Michael J. Colacurcio,Michael Colacurcio,Emory Elliot
• Publisher : CUP Archive
• Release Date : 1985-10-31
• ISBN : 0521319986

The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator, characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive metaphor of

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release Date : 2009-12-15
• ISBN : 0674035747

Hawthorne's greatest romance is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his Introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that it is also a serious historical novel. This edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1963
• ISBN : UOM:39015000144959

In 18th century Boston, a Puritan girl is condemned to wear the letter "A" for bearing an illegitimate daughter.

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1850
• ISBN : HARVARD:HN6HUP

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Broadview Press
• Release Date : 2004-10-28
• ISBN : 1551116367

Hawthorne’s story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet “A” as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne’s writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the

• Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
• Publisher : Transaction Publishers
• Release Date : 2013-04-30
• ISBN : 9781412849364

"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols participate in the dynamics of culture, including the dynamics of constraint." With an approach that both reflects and contests developments in literary studies, Bercovitch explores these connections from two perspectives: first, he examines

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Margaret Brantley
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2004-05
• ISBN : 9780743487566

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Hawthorne's classic treatise on morality, judgment, and exile in Puritan America. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations • Detailed explanatory notes • Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work • Discussion questions

• Author : Mary Jane McKinney
• Publisher : Grammardog LLC
• Release Date : 2003-08
• ISBN : 9781608570317

Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this classic American novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language exemplifies Romanticism (leaves "whisper," pine trees "moan," ". . . the sunshine does not love you."). Allusions characteristic of Romanticism include "magic circle," "magician's wand," "elfish spirit," "nymph-child," "fairies," "witches," "Eden" and "Pentecost."

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release Date : 2012-05-07
• ISBN : 9780486115597

Includes the unabridged text of Hawthorne's classic novel plus a complete study guide that features chapter-by-chapter summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, historical background, and more.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Pearson UK
• Release Date : 2019
• ISBN : 9781292302607

• Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1885
• ISBN : 0143105442

During the seventeenth century in Boston, a woman guilty of adultery is forced to wear an A as a visible sign of her sin.