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THE SCARLET LETTER (UNABRIDGED CLASSICS)
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Om Books International
| Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Om Books International
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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“She had not known the
weight until she felt the freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, The
Scarlet Letter, set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, is the
tale of Hester Prynne’s ‘shame’ following the birth of a child whose father
remains unidentified for the larger part of the narrative. Hester’s defiance
in the face of expulsion and repudiation makes her a heroine ahead of her
time. Pearl, the illegitimate daughter, Arthur Dimmesdale, the ‘cheating’
Minister of Church, Reverend John Wilson, and the malicious Roger
Chillingworth are Hawthorne’s characters whose lives, premised on guilt and
pride, take a tumultuous turn as the cataclysmic outcome of an act of
passion. The embroidered scarlet ‘A’—that she is required to wear on her
dress on the day of her punishment— becomes a manifestation of Hester’s
‘adultery’, her erratic past and ignominious present. Will she break her vow
of silence?”
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“She had not known the
weight until she felt the freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, The
Scarlet Letter, set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, is the
tale of Hester Prynne’s ‘shame’ following the birth of a child whose father
remains unidentified for the larger part of the narrative. Hester’s defiance
in the face of expulsion and repudiation makes her a heroine ahead of her
time. Pearl, the illegitimate daughter, Arthur Dimmesdale, the ‘cheating’
Minister of Church, Reverend John Wilson, and the malicious Roger
Chillingworth are Hawthorne’s characters whose lives, premised on guilt and
pride, take a tumultuous turn as the cataclysmic outcome of an act of
passion. The embroidered scarlet ‘A’—that she is required to wear on her
dress on the day of her punishment— becomes a manifestation of Hester’s
‘adultery’, her erratic past and ignominious present. Will she break her vow
of silence?”
About Author
American
novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4 July 184 in
Salem, Massachusetts.
Hawthorne studied at Bowdoin College from 1821 to 1825 and shortly
thereafter published his first novel Fanshawe in 1828. In 1836, he served as
the editor of the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining
Knowledge.
Predominantly a short story writer in his early career, Hawthorne, after
publishing Twice-Told Tales (1837), surprisingly observed about his own
works, “I do not think much of them.” However, his most popular short stories
include ‘My Kinsman, Major Molineux’ (1832), ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’
(1832), ‘Young Goodman Brown’ (1835) and ‘Feathertop’ (1852).
Hawthorne’s other major romances apart from the bestselling The Scarlet
Letter (185) were The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale
Romance (1852) and The Marble Faun (186). For Hawthorne, romance was about
exploring psychological themes like sin, human fallibility, self-destruction
and retribution. Dark romanticism bordering on surrealism is what Hawthorne’s
works, inspired by Puritan New England, were steeped in.
His seminal essay ‘Chiefly About War Matters’ (1862) foregrounded the
author’s experiences of meeting eminent figures like Abraham Lincoln, during
his travel to Washington, D.C., amidst the American Civil War.
Among his published works, a biography of his college friend Franklin
Pierce, the 14th President of the United States is also noteworthy.
Hawthorne died in his sleep on 19 May 1864.
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