The scarlet letter and other writings : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism
(2005)

Fiction

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FICTION/HAWTHORNE,N

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2005]
©2005
DESCRIPTION

xv, 744 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0393979539, 9780393979534, 9780393979534, 9780393979534
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

The Scarlet Letter. Preface to the second edition -- The Custom-House -- The Scarlet Letter -- Other writings. Mrs. Hutchinson -- Endicott and the Red Cross -- Young Goodman Brown -- The Minister's Black Veil -- The Birth-mark -- Contexts. Nathaniel Hawthorne : From American notebooks -- From letters -- From the life of Franklin Pierce -- Criticism. Nineteenth-century reviews of The Scarlet Letter -- Puritan background and sources -- The Custom House -- The Scarlet Letter -- Other writings -- Nathaniel Hawthorne : A Chronology -- Selected Bibliography

Presents an annotated edition of "The Scarlet Letter," the story of a young wife convicted of adultery in seventeenth-century New England, and includes five shorter works by Hawthorne, a selection of the author's letters and notebook entries, and critical commentary

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