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The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Series:
- Courage classics
- Running Press classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- 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.
- Women--Massachusetts--Fiction.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Psychological fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 201, [7] pages ; 22 cm.
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Imprint of Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books, 1991.
- Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- The Custom-House: Introductory. 1. The Prison-Door; 2. The Market-Place; 3. The Recognition; 4. The Interview; 5. Hester at Her Needle; 6. Pearl; 7. The Governor's Hall; 8. The Elf-Child and the Minister; 9. The Leech; 10. The Leech and His Patient; 11. The Interior of a Heart; 12. The Minister's Vigil; 13. Another View of Hester; 14. Hester and the Physician; 15. Hester and Pearl; 16. A Forest Walk; 17. The Pastor and His Parishioner; 18. A Flood of Sunshine; 19. The Child by the Brook-Side; 20. The Minister in a Maze; 21. The New England Holiday; 22. The Procession; 23. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter; 24. Conclusion
- Essays. By George Parsons Lathrop; By Mark Van Doren.
- Notes:
- "Complete and Unabridged"--Jacket.
- "The text of this volume is reprinted from a first edition of 'The Scarlet Letter,' published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields in 1850, and made available through the courtesy of the Bryn Mawr College Library."--Title page verso.
- "The essay The Scarlet Letter by Mark Van Doren is reprinted by permission of Dorothy C. Van Doren from 'Nathaniel Hawthorne' by Mark Van Doren New York, William Sloan Associates, 1949, copyright © Dorothy C. Van Doren."--Title page verso.
- "Cover illustration by Ann Bedrick. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Typography: Times Roman and Plantin by Folio Typographers, Inc., Pennsauken, NJ. Augustea Open by Letraset."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy 1 has dustjacket retained.
- Running Press copy is "1" printing.
- Running Press copy 2 has uncorrected ISBN (1563180369) on title page verso.
- Running Press copy 2 dustjacket has cover photograph of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Granger Collection, New York and different ISBN (076240552X) than that printed on title page verso. Dustjacket does not have "Complete and Unabridged".
- Running Press copy 2 is "7" printing.
- ISBN:
- 1561380369
- 9781561380367
- 0895771845
- 9780895771841
- OCLC:
- 24372580
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