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23 de out. de 1999 · We use the first edition as copy-text. The first American edition of The Scarlet Letter was published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields in 1850 and is thus now in the public domain. (See the legal notice if you plan to use these pages in any way other than as you would a copyrighted book from a library).
The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne explores the human conscience, repentance, and remorse in this tale of forbidden love and secret shame. Hester Prynne becomes an outcast in her Puritan community when she gives birth to an illegitimate child while her husband is away. She is forced to wear a scarlet “A” to symbolize her adultery and mark her ...
About This Book. In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband - long thought to be lost at sea - has returned to Boston under the assumed name 'Roger Chillingworth' and plots to uncover her lover's identity.
This book has 83,951 words, 133 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1850. This is the second edition, first published in 1878. Production notes: This ebook of The Scarlet Letter was published by Global Grey on the 25th August 2021, and updated on the 5th June 2023.
13 de mai. de 2022 · THE CUSTOM-HOUSE INTRODUCTORY TO “THE SCARLET LETTER” It is a little remarkable, that—though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends—an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.
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THE SCARLET LETTER. I. THE PRISON DOOR. A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
