by Nathaniel Hawthorne · William Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007350926
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«The Scarlet Letter» is the classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published by William Collins in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Set in seventeenth-century Puritan New England, it tells how Hester Prynne, mother of an illegitimate child, is condemned to public scorn and forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest. After refusing to reveal the name of her lover, Hester faces her punishment with dignity while the hidden father and her husband deal in opposite ways with guilt and revenge. A story about sin, social hypocrisy and redemption.
Part of the Collins Classics collection. Originally published in 1850 under the title «The Scarlet Letter: A Romance».
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
