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The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited with notes by Brian Harding ; with a new introduction by Cindy Weinstein.

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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. - ;'Th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Other Authors: Harding, Brian (Brian R.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford world's classics.
Subjects:
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction.
Illegitimate children > Fiction.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
Married women > Fiction.
Puritans > Fiction.
Adultery > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Clergy > Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Fiction.
Adultery.
Clergy.
Illegitimate children.
Married women.
Puritans.
Revenge.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Women immigrants.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Fiction.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne; THE SCARLET LETTER; Preface to the Second Edition; The Custom-House
  • Introductory; Explanatory Notes.

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