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Scarlet Letter : Introduction by Alfred Kazin by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1992, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679417311

ISBN-139780679417316

eBay Product ID (ePID)13575

Product Key Features

Book TitleScarlet Letter : Introduction by Alfred Kazin

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicClassics, Literary, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight15.8 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN92-052902

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"[The Scarlet Letter's] Hester was the creation of someone who loved Woman, saw her, as Verdi did, as necessarily tragic and alone, but emotionally sacred in a diminished world . . . Hester is the only character in the book big enough to sustain a conflictwith the harsh Puritan worldequal to Hawthorne's own. In a book without heroes, Hester is a unique literary heroine." from the Introduction by Alfred Kazin, "[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley From the Trade Paperback edition., "[ The Scarlet Letter' s] Hester was the creation of someone who loved Woman, saw her, as Verdi did, as necessarily tragic and alone, but emotionally sacred in a diminished world . . . Hester is the only character in the book big enough to sustain a conflictwith the harsh Puritan worldequal to Hawthorne's own. In a book without heroes, Hester is a unique literary heroine." from the Introduction by Alfred Kazin

Dewey Decimal813/.3

SynopsisHester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter Pearl is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. Hester's refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter "A" for "Adulteress." The story of Hester Prynne-found out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and her vengeance-seeking husband-possesses a reality heightened by Hawthorne's pure human sympathy and his unmixed devotion to his supposedly fallen but fundamentally innocent heroine. In its moral force and the beauty of its conciliations, The Scarlet Letter rightly deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, the novel that announced an American literature equal to any in the world.

LC Classification NumberPS1868.A1 1992