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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.

The Scarlet Letter

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    A Paperback / softback by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Claridge, Dr Keith Carabine

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      Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
      Published 5 May 1992
      ISBN-13 9781853260292
      978-1853260292
      ISBN-10 1853260290
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      Classics Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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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