| The Scarlet Letter Contributor(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Author), Underwood, Kristen (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433212625 ISBN-13: 9781433212628 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: After giving birth to a child from an illicit affair, Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman, is forced to wear the letter "A," for adulteress, embroidered on her dress, for the entire town to see. 2 CDs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.49" W x 5.91" (0.55 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Locality - Boston-Worcester, Mass. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 of a single passionate act on the lives of three people: the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth; and the defiant Hester Prynne, who, unwilling to name her partner in adultery, is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" on the breast of her gown for the remainder of her life. She and her illegitimate daughter become outcasts, forced to live solitary lives--until Hester's estranged husband arrives and stirs up trouble. With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic--a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt, and pride. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel: - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and made his ambition to be a writer while still a teenager. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where the poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years traveling in New England and writing short stories before his best known novel, The Scarlet Letter, was published in 1850. His writing was not at first financially rewarding, and he worked as measurer and surveyor in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses. In 1853 he was sent to Liverpool as American consul and then lived in Italy before returning to the United States in 1860, where he died in his sleep four years later. |