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The Scarlet Letter
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Scarlet Letter
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Introduction and notes by Henry Claridge
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Series edited by Dr. Keith Carabine
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| Series | Wordsworth Classics |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:224 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781853260292
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.3 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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| Imprint |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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| Publication Date |
5 May 1992 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.
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