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"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...

A guide to Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", offering biographical information about the author, analysis of the text, a character list, and critical excerpts.

520 Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale...

"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...

The Sarlet letter, set in Boston is about a young woman who must wear a scarlet A on her clothing as a sign of her sin of adultery. She was led into sin by her pastor who confesses just before he dies and ; The house of seven gables which is about the Pyncheon family who lived for years in a house under a man's curse until his death restores the peace of their house.

This book discusses the life of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the historical context, plot, themes, characters, and literary analysis of his "psychological romance" novel, The Scarlet Letter.