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The Scarlet Letter: [ Over 34 Illustrations ] by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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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 Salem, 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. Publication history It was long thought that Hawthorne originally planned The Scarlet Letter to be a shorter velette which was part of a collection to be named Old Time Legends and that his publisher, James Thomas Fields, convinced him to expand the work to a full-length vel. This is t true: Fields persuaded Hawthorne to publish The Scarlet Letter alone (along with the earlier-completed Custom House essay) but he had thing to do with the length of the story. Hawthorne's wife Sophia later challenged Fields' claims a little inexactly: he has made the absurd boast that he was the sole cause of the Scarlet Letter being published! She ted that her husband's friend Edwin Percy Whipple, a critic, approached Fields to consider its publication. The manuscript was written at the Peter Edgerley House in Salem, Massachusetts, still standing as a private residence at 14 Mall Street. It was the last Salem home where the Hawthorne family lived. The Scarlet Letter was published as a vel in the spring of 1850 by Tickr & Fields, beginning Hawthorne's most lucrative period. When he delivered the final pages to Fields in February 1850, Hawthorne said that some portions of the book are powerfully written but doubted it would be popular. In fact, the book was an instant best-seller though, over fourteen years, it brought its author only $1,500. Its initial publication brought wide protest from natives of Salem, who did t approve of how Hawthorne had depicted them in his introduction The Custom-House. A 2,500-copy second edition of The Scarlet Letter included a preface by Hawthorne dated March 30, 1850, that stated he had decided to reprint his introduction without the change of a word... The only remarkable features of the sketch are its frank and genuine good-humor... As to enmity, or ill-feeling of any kind, personal or political, he utterly disclaims such motives. The Scarlet Letter was also one of the first mass-produced books in America. Into the mid-nineteenth century, bookbinders of home-grown literature typically hand-made their books and sold them in small quantities. The first mechanized printing of The Scarlet Letter, 2,500 volumes, sold out within ten days, and was widely read and discussed to an extent t much experienced in the young country up until that time. Copies of the first edition are often sought by collectors as rare books, and may fetch up to around $18,000 USD.

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CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1480087130
ISBN-13
9781480087132
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189430385

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Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Genre
General & Literary Fiction

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Weight
358g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm

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Spine
14mm
Illustrator(s)
Hugh Thomson
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
13/10/2012
Country of Publication
United States

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