Ebook {Epub PDF} The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter 2 of EDITOR’S NOTE Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty-six, and a tale writer of some twenty-four years’ standing, when ‘The Scarlet Letter’ appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, , son of a sea-captain. He File Size: 1MB. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chapter 2: “The Market-Place”," The Scarlet Letter, Lit2Go Edition, (), accessed Octo, www.doorway.ru . From my library: A Franklin Library edition of Hawthorne's classic work.

Author Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of Seven Gables,' and also wrote many short stories. The Scarlet Letter, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in The work centers on Hester Prynne, a married woman who is shunned after bearing a child out of wedlock but displays great compassion and resiliency. The novel is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. The Scarlet Letter begins with a prelude in which an unnamed narrator explains the novel's origin. While working at the Salem Custom House (a tax collection agency), the narrator discovered in the attic a manuscript accompanied by a beautiful scarlet letter "A." After the narrator lost his job, he decided to develop the story told in the manuscript into a novel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, published in , sets its events in the Puritan society of two centuries before, and narrates a tale as scandalous for that time as the stuff in grocery-store paperbacks now. So why is this novel considered one of the greatest American novels, and why do we study it in schools?. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years to , the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The Scarlet Letter, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in The work centers on Hester Prynne, a married woman who is shunned after bearing a child out of wedlock but displays great compassion and resiliency. The novel is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study.