The Scarlet Letter Readable Classics

Author : Nathanial Hawthorne
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722524766
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathanial Hawthorne and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scarlet Letter by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne was published in 1850. This work of historical fiction is considered to be a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1642 to 1649 the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and refuses to reveal her lover’s identity. Hester believes herself to be a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns to New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her sin and her secrecy. Chillingworth becomes obsessed with finding the identity of his wife’s former lover. Hester struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. When it’s revealed that her lover is a saintly young minister, Dimmesdale, who is the leader of those exhorting her to name the child’s father, he is tormented until stricken by guilt, becomes ill and publicly confesses his adultery before dying in Hester’s arms. Hester herself is revealed to be a self-reliant heroine who is never truly repentant for committing adultery with the minister and feels that their act was consecrated by their deep love for each other. She begins a new life with her daughter in Europe and years later upon her return to New England, she continues to wear the scarlet letter. After her death she is buried next to Dimmesdale and on their joint tombstone is a description of the scarlet A.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Chadwick Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0615332013
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter (Readable Classics) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Chadwick Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hester Prynne, a woman condemned for a sin of passion, must forever wear the scarlet letter "A" on her breast.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Manga Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Manga Classics. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Hawthorne's powerful tale of forbidden love, shame and revenge comes to life in this manga presentation of the classic story. When Hester Prynne bears an illegitimate child, she is introduced to the ugliness, complexity, and ultimately the strength of the human spirit. Though set in a Puritan community during the Colonial American period, the moral dilemmas of personal responsibility and consuming emotions of guilt, anger, loyalty and revenge are timeless. This beautiful manga retelling of Hawthorne's classic American novel is faithfully adapted by Crystal S. Chan and features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into this tragic saga of Puritan America.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533490797
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. The scarlet letter "A" represents the act of adultery that she has committed; it is to be a symbol of her sin for all to see. She will not reveal her lover's identity, however, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954839175
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter (Reader's Library Classics) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486114651
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stark power and emotional depth, Hawthorne's masterpiece explores sin, guilt, and redemption in a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781976001123
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale, trapped by the rules of society, stands as a classic study of a self divided. About Nathaniel Hawthorne : Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial history. "Behold, verily, there is the women of the Scarlet Letter; and, of a truth, moreover, there is the likeness of the scarlet letter book running alongside her" Let's talk a little bit about self-fulfilling prophecy. If an entire community, and religious sect, brand a girl's mother as a sinner, whether justly or unjustly, then surely the girl will take some of this to heart? If the only world she has ever known is one when he only parent is considered ungodly, blasphemous and full of sin, then surely she will begin to reflect some of these ideals? When the Puritans branded Hester with the Scarlet Letter, they also branded her daughter (metaphorically speaking, of course.)" " Actually, I've read this book twice, the first time when I was in high school. Reading it again after some thirty years, I was amazed at the amount of meaning I'd missed the first time! Most modern readers don't realize (and certainly aren't taught in school) that Hawthorne --as his fiction, essays and journals make clear-- was a strong Christian, though he steadfastly refused to join a denomination; and here his central subject is the central subject of the Christian gospel: sin's guilt and forgiveness. (Unlike many moderns, Hawthorne doesn't regard Hester's adultery as perfectly okay and excusable --though he also doesn't regard it as an unforgivable sin.) But his faith was of a firmly Arminian sort; and as he makes abundantly clear, it's very hard for sinners mired in the opposite, Calvinist tradition to lay hold of repentance and redemption when their religious beliefs tell them they may not be among the pre-chosen "elect." (It's no accident that his setting is 17th-century New England --the heartland of an unadulterated, unquestioned Calvinism whose hold on people's minds was far more iron-clad than it had become in his day.) If you aren't put off by 19th-century diction, this book is a wonderful read, with its marvelous symbolism and masterful evocation of the atmosphere of the setting (the occasional hints of the possibly supernatural add flavor to the whole like salt in a stew). Highly recommended! "

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982910030
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter (the Classics written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers have long understood that grasping the themes of great literature, while often times challenging, is well within the means of those readers willing to thoughtfully engage the text. Furthermore, teachers have long understood the value of margin notes as a powerful tool in accomplishing this end. Yet despite the collective wisdom of many educators, publishers continue to print the classics in a format little conducive to the kind of "text-grappling" that experts recommended.In listening to students and educators, Gladius Books has heeded the call by publishing a series of the most frequently read classics, each printed with extra-wide margins for convenient annotations.To maximize the value of margin notes, the publisher has also included an appendix with helpful note-taking suggestions.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501006883
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. In popular culture The Scarlet Letter has been adapted to numerous films, plays and operas and remains frequently referenced in modern popular culture. The plot of the novel The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster revolves around the manuscript of The Scarlet Letter. Critical response On its publication, critic Evert Augustus Duyckinck, a friend of Hawthorne's, said he preferred the author's Washington Irving-like tales. Another friend, critic Edwin Percy Whipple, objected to the novel's "morbid intensity" with dense psychological details, writing that the book "is therefore apt to become, like Hawthorne, too painfully anatomical in his exhibition of them". Most literary critics praised the book but religious leaders took issue with the novel's subject matter. Orestes Brownson complained that Hawthorne did not understand Christianity, confession, and remorse. A review in The Church Review and Ecclesiastical Register concluded the author "perpetrates bad morals." On the other hand, 20th century writer D. H. Lawrence said that there could be not be a more perfect work of the American imagination than The Scarlet Letter. Henry James once said of the novel, "It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne's best things---an indefinable purity and lightness of conception...One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art." The book's immediate and lasting success are due to the way it addresses spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risqué subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it passed easily into the realm of appropriate reading. It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius, dense with terse descriptions. It remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth, and continues to be read as a classic tale on a universal theme.