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Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals the author's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves.

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"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley

The Scarlet Letter Penguin Classics Deluxe

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    A Paperback / softback by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruben Toledo

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 25 August 2009
      ISBN-13 9780143105442
      978-0143105442
      ISBN-10 0143105442
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      Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals the author's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves.

      Trade Review
      "[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley

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