The Scarlet Letter (The World's Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0192817531 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, September 1990
Presents the classic nineteenth-century work focusing on the consequences of adultery and unacknowledged guilt in Puritan New England, and provides explanatory notes on the text
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Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a sign of her adultery, and it has a strange and disturbing effect upon those around her - neighbours, husband, lover and child.
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