The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

Overview

This brilliant, unusual adaptation of the classic novel has a decidedly contemporary slant. Although set in Puritan times, it deals with issues which make it almost a feminist deconstruction of the novel even as it preserves the familiar story of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale.

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Authors

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, to Captain Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning. After his father’s death, Hawthorne’s mother moved the family to Raymond, Maine, where they lived virtually isolated from society. In 1825, Hawt ...
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