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Best Selling Books by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENATHANIEL HAWTHORNE is the author of The Scarlet Letter (2020), The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (2017), The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015), The House of the Seven Gables (2016), The Blithedale romance.
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release date: May 28, 2020
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a real classic. You should grab it and read it to experience it yourself. Here''s a simple plot to The Scarlet Letter: In Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne, a young woman who has given birth to a baby of unknown parentage. She is required to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress when she is in front of the townspeople to shame her. The letter "A" stands for adulteress, although this is never said explicitly in the novel. Her sentence required her to stand on the scaffold for three hours, exposed to public humiliation, and to wear the scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. As Hester approaches the scaffold, many of the women in the crowd are angered by her beauty and quiet dignity. When demanded and cajoled to name the father of her child, Hester refuses.As Hester looks out over the crowd, she notices a small, misshapen man and recognizes him as her long-lost husband, who has been presumed lost at sea. When the husband sees Hester''s shame, he asks a man in the crowd about her and is told the story of his wife''s adultery. He angrily exclaims that the child''s father, the partner in the adulterous act, should also be punished and vows to find the man. He chooses a new name, Roger Chillingworth, to aid him in his plan.The Reverend John Wilson and the minister of Hester''s church, Arthur Dimmesdale, question the woman, but she refuses to name her lover. After she returns to her prison cell, the jailer brings in Roger Chillingworth, a physician, to calm Hester and her child with his roots and herbs. He and Hester have an open conversation regarding their marriage and the fact that they were both in the wrong. Her lover, however, is another matter and he demands to know who it is; Hester refuses to divulge such information. He accepts this, stating that he will find out anyway, and forces her to hide that he is her husband. If she ever reveals him, he warns her, he will destroy the child''s father. Hester agrees to Chillingworth''s terms although she suspects she will regret it.Following her release from prison, Hester settles in a cottage at the edge of town and earns a meager living with her needlework, which is of extraordinary quality. She lives a quiet, somber life with her daughter, Pearl, and performs acts of charity for the poor. She is troubled by her daughter''s unusual fascination with Hester''s scarlet "A". The shunning of Hester also extends to Pearl, who has no playmates or friends except her mother. As she grows older, Pearl becomes capricious and unruly. Her conduct starts rumors, and, not surprisingly, the church members suggest Pearl be taken away from Hester.Hester, hearing rumors that she may lose Pearl, goes to speak to Governor Bellingham. With him are ministers Wilson and Dimmesdale. Hester appeals to Dimmesdale in desperation, and the minister persuades the governor to let Pearl remain in Hester''s care.Because Dimmesdale''s health has begun to fail, the townspeople are happy to have Chillingworth, a newly arrived physician, take up lodgings with their beloved minister. Being in such close contact with Dimmesdale, Chillingworth begins to suspect that the minister''s illness is the result of some unconfessed guilt. He applies psychological pressure to the minister because he suspects Dimmesdale is Pearl''s father. One evening, pulling the sleeping Dimmesdale''s vestment aside, Chillingworth sees a symbol that represents his shame on the minister''s pale chest.Tormented by his guilty conscience, Dimmesdale goes to the square where Hester was punished years earlier. Climbing the scaffold, he admits his guilt but cannot find the courage to do so publicly.... ... ... The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne
release date: Feb 11, 2015
The House of the Seven Gables
release date: Oct 24, 2016
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Doctor Grimshawe's secret, a romance
The Scarlet Letter: the Annotated and Complete Unabridged Edition
release date: Apr 05, 2020
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
release date: Nov 04, 2021
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown
release date: Feb 10, 2018
The SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne the New Fully Updated and Annotated Edition
release date: Jul 08, 2020
release date: Oct 27, 2017
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Annotated
release date: Jun 17, 2021
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