The Scarlet Letter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the shadow of a Puritan settlement in seventeenth-century Boston, a woman named Hester Prynne is forced to stand before her community bearing the mark of her transgression — a scarlet letter A stitched upon her breast — as punishment for the sin of adultery. The Scarlet Letter chronicles her unyielding struggle for dignity and survival alongside her illegitimate daughter Pearl, while the identity of her secret lover slowly corrodes the moral fabric of the entire community. Hawthorne constructs a suffocating world of religious zealotry and social judgment, where guilt, secrecy, and hypocrisy are as omnipresent as the grey New England skies above. A landmark of American Romantic literature, The Scarlet Letter stands as one of the first major novels written in the United States, and its psychological depth and moral ambiguity remain as provocative today as when it was first published in 1850. Hawthorne's prose is dense, allegorical, and richly symbolic, weaving a narrative that argues powerfully against the cruelty of rigid moral systems and the corrosive power of hidden shame. This Easton Press Collector's Edition — part of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series and bound in genuine leather — presents this timeless masterwork in a format worthy of its enduring literary stature, leaving the reader to wonder: who, in the end, is truly condemned?
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
In the shadow of a Puritan settlement in seventeenth-century Boston, a woman named Hester Prynne is forced to stand before her community bearing the mark of her transgression — a scarlet letter A stitched upon her breast — as punishment for the sin of adultery. The Scarlet Letter chronicles her unyielding struggle for dignity and survival alongside her illegitimate daughter Pearl, while the identity of her secret lover slowly corrodes the moral fabric of the entire community. Hawthorne constructs a suffocating world of religious zealotry and social judgment, where guilt, secrecy, and hypocrisy are as omnipresent as the grey New England skies above. A landmark of American Romantic literature, The Scarlet Letter stands as one of the first major novels written in the United States, and its psychological depth and moral ambiguity remain as provocative today as when it was first published in 1850. Hawthorne's prose is dense, allegorical, and richly symbolic, weaving a narrative that argues powerfully against the cruelty of rigid moral systems and the corrosive power of hidden shame. This Easton Press Collector's Edition — part of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series and bound in genuine leather — presents this timeless masterwork in a format worthy of its enduring literary stature, leaving the reader to wonder: who, in the end, is truly condemned?