The Scarlet Letter (Oxford World's Classics)
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ISBN: 0192833715 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, May 1998
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement
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Set in Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter tells the intriguing tale of Hester Prynne, a woman caught in the conflict between the Puritan ethics of her community and the higher law of her own love. In this tragic tale, we see the struggle between the laws of scripture and those of a differentmoral authority. This up-to-date edition covers recent developments in Hawthorne scholarship.
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