The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Description

First published in 1850, “The Scarlet Letter” is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart.
Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark power and emotional depth that has mesmerized critics and readers for nearly a century and a half.
The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. —Henry James
[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy. —Malcolm Cowley
There could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than “The Scarlet Letter”. —D. H. Lawrence
The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective — wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. —Edgar Allan Poe

Sujets

• Romance
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Pandora's Box
• Date de parution: 09 mai 2024
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789895621941
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE SCARLET LETTER
Table of Contents
 
 
 
Introduction — The Custom-House
Chapter 1 — The Prison Door
Chapter 2 — The Market-Place
Chapter 3 — The Recognition
Chapter 4 — The Interview
Chapter 5 — Hester at Her Needle
Chapter 6 — Pearl
Chapter 7 — The Governor’s Hall
Chapter 8 — The Elf-Child and the Minister
Chapter 9 — The Leech
Chapter 10 — The Leech and His Patient
Chapter 11 — The Interior of a Heart
Chapter 12 — The Minister’s Vigil
Chapter 13 — Another View of Hester
Chapter 14 — Hester and the Physician
Chapter 15 — Hester and Pearl
Chapter 16 — A Forest Walk
Chapter 17 — The Pastor and His Parishioner
Chapter 18 — A Flood of Sunshine
Chapter 19 — The Child at the Brookside
Chapter 20 — The Minister in a Maze
Chapter 21 — The New England Holiday
Chapter 22 — The Procession
Chapter 23 — The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
Chapter 24 — Conclusion