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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993, Unabridged, Audio Cassette) 
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993, Unabridged, Audio Cassette)

 
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993, Unabridged, Audio Cassette)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 1561001384
ISBN-13: 9781561001385
Product ID: EPID1778644
Description: Hawthorne's classic novel of guilt and redemption in pre-Revolutionary Boston provides vivid insight into the social and religious forces that shaped early America. A woman named Hester Prynne, having become pregnant while her husband wa...
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Synopsis
Hawthorne's classic novel of guilt and redemption in pre-Revolutionary Boston provides vivid insight into the social and religious forces that shaped early America. A woman named Hester Prynne, having become pregnant while her husband was apparently lost at sea, is publicly shamed by being forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" across her chest at all times. Despite the torment and humiliation of the Puritan villagers, Hester refuses to identify the father of her daughter, Pearl, who becomes the flesh and blood symbol of her infidelity. Unbeknownst to the rest of the village, Hester's husband returns to take up residence in Boston under the assumed name of Roger Chillingworth, and he begins nurturing thoughts of revenge. Meanwhile, Hester's only supporter is a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale, who suffers terribly from a mysterious ailment. Eventually, Hester, Pearl, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale will come to realize that the weight of a public sin becomes easier to tolerate over time, while the burden of hidden guilt becomes so heavy that it will eventually crush the bearer.

Hawthorne's classic novel of guilt and redemption in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts provides vivid insight into the social and religious forces that shaped early America.

Details
Publication Date:1993-06-01
Narrated by:Dick Hill
Edition Description:Unabridged

Size
Height:8.8 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Publisher's Note
Hester Prynne is ostracized by her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to reveal the identity of her child's father. Book available.

Industry Reviews
"The error in 'The Scarlet Letter' proceeded from the divorce of its humor from its pathos--the introduction being as genial as Goldsmith or Lamb, and the story which followed being tragic even to ghastliness."
Graham's Magazine - Edwin Percy Whipple (06/01/1851)

"THE SCARLET LETTER has the charm of unconsciousness; the author did not realize while he worked, that this 'most prolix among tales' was alive with the miraculous vitality of genius. It combines the strength and substance of an oak with the subtle organization of a rose, and is great, not of malice aforethought, but inevitably."
Atlantic Monthly - Julian Hawthorne (04/01/1886)

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