Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited with notes by Brian Harding ; with a new introduction by Cindy Weinstein.
New ed.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
1 online resource (xxxii, 226 pages).
Oxford world's classics.
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback in 1990."
Includes bibliographical references (pages XXXIV-LX).
After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction. - ;'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.'. With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover.
Scarlet letter.
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Adultery, Fiction.
Clergy, Fiction.
Illegitimate children, Fiction.
Married women, Fiction.
Puritans, Fiction.
Revenge, Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction.
Women immigrants, Fiction.
Adultery.
Clergy.
FICTION-- Historical.
Illegitimate children.
Married women.
Puritans.
Revenge.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Women immigrants.
Boston (Mass.), History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Fiction.