The scarlet letter
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The scarlet letter
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The work The scarlet letter represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Shoals Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The scarlet letter
- Statement of responsibility
- Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustrations by Robert Quackenbush ; afterword by James Guimond
- Subject
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- Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
- Clergy -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Puritans -- Fiction
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS1868.A2
- LC item number
- G8 1984
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- The World's best reading
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