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The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

von Nathaniel Hawthorne

After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction.

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A required read for my American Literary Class that I did NOT enjoy.

Hester Prynne commits adultery that results in the birth of an illegitimate child, the ministers then rule that she should be forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' for the rest of her life so she will be publicly shamed. This is at the beginning in the first couple of chapters. After that, the story is about finding out the identity of the father, which is no mystery at all, interactions between Hester and her husband...

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Art:
Taschenbuch
Genre:
Romane und Erzählungen
Sprache:
englisch
Umfang:
272 Seiten
ISBN:
9780199537808
Erschienen:
Oktober 2008
Verlag:
Oxford University Press
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