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The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited with notes by Brian Harding ; with a new introduction by Cindy Weinstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics.
- Oxford world's classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Illegitimate children--Fiction.
- Illegitimate children.
- Women immigrants--Fiction.
- Women immigrants.
- Married women--Fiction.
- Married women.
- Puritans--Fiction.
- Puritans.
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Revenge--Fiction.
- Revenge.
- Clergy--Fiction.
- Clergy.
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- New edition. / edited with notes by Brian Harding ; with a new introduction by Cindy Weinstein.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the text of the centenary edition, and includes a wide-ranging critical introduction.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne; THE SCARLET LETTER; Preface to the Second Edition; The Custom-House-Introductory; Explanatory Notes
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and publisher information.
- "First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback in 1990."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [XXXIV]-[LX]).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-192113-0
- 1-281-15494-6
- 0-19-153774-8
- OCLC:
- 476246068
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