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Considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study, The Scarlet Letter is set in Puritan Boston. Hester Prynne, a young woman married to a much older man, has arrived in New England before him and has not heard from him for many months. He is presumed lost at sea. She bears an illegitimate child and is sentenced to wear a red A as a badge of shame. By the end of the ensuing drama, it is her husband who is morally degraded, and her lover who is broken by his own sense of guilt. A time-worn mansion in Salem is the setting of The House of the Seven Gables, the story of a distinguished but troubled New England family -- the Pyncheons. A haunting, centuries-old curse, a forceful probing of national and personal guilt, a romance between the young heroine and an attractive stranger -- all intertwine in this work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel." The text of The Toby Press edition is based on the first editions of these works, published in 1850 and 1851 respectively, and includes Hawthorne's preface to the second edition of The Scarlet Letter. It also features an introductory essay and chronology by Professor Michael J. Kramer, chair of the English department at Bar Ilan University.
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Signet/New American Library, 1981
ISBN 10: 0451519086
ISBN 13: 9780451519085
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paperback. No Jacket. New York. 1981. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0451519086. Introduction by James R. Mellow. 278 pages. paperback. CE1908. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. DESCRIPTION - THE SCARLET LETTER - An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband - these are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh Puritan world of seventeenth - Century Boston. Tremendously moving, rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of shame and redemption reveals Hawthorne's concern with the New England past and its influence on American attitudes. From his dramatic illumination of the struggles between mind and heart, dogma and self - reliance, he fashioned one of the masterpieces of fiction. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES - An evil house, cursed by a man hanged for witchcraft, haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, wracked by the fear of its frightened living - this is Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. Within its walls dwell the Pyncheons: Hepzibah, an elderly recluse; Clifford, her feebleminded brother; Phoebe, their young country cousin. and Jaffrey, a devil incarnate. Both the people and the place are drawn from a mixture of the actual and the imaginary. Colonel Pyncheon is based on Hawthorne's great grandfather, the gloomy, gabled house on his own home. This masterful blending of the spiritual and symbolic allows Hawthorne's haunted house to stand firm where many a weaker one has fallen. inventory #39053 Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Seller Inventory # z39053
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