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HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.''A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne''s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.

The Scarlet Letter Collins Classics

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    A Paperback / softback by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint William Collins
      Published 1 April 2010
      ISBN-13 9780007350926
      978-0007350926
      ISBN-10 0007350929
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      Historical Fiction ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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      Book Synopsis
      HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.''A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne''s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.

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