Dimensions
130 x 197 x 17mm
Hester Prynne has had an illegitimate child. A young Puritan minister pleads with her to name her lover, the father. Her child is evidence of her sin; her silence of her wilful perversity. Her eyes now fall on another man, who seems to stare into her soul and discover her secret. A drama unfolds which threatens more than their own peace of mind and true identities. Forced by the Puritans to wear a scarlet letter 'A', for adultery, on her clothes, Hester nevertheless resists the moral code of her community and continues to insist through it all that she is the author of her own life.
Set two centuries before Hawthorne's own time, 'The Scarlet Letter' inserts Hester - an independent woman - into the very earliest moments of American history.
A comprehensive edition, with introduction, bibliography and chronology of Hawthorne's life and times.
