The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Buch)

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

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Ed. with Notes by Brian Harding and a new Introduction by Cindy Weinstein
Herausgeber: Brian Harding

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Oxford University Press, 10/2008
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-13: 9780199537808
Bestellnummer: 2057071
Umfang: 272 Seiten
Nummer der Auflage: 08000
Auflage: New edition
Copyright-Jahr: 2008
Gewicht: 195 g
Maße: 195 x 128 mm
Stärke: 15 mm
Erscheinungstermin: 15.10.2008
Serie: Oxford World's Classics
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

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Beschreibung

'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.'
With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very different men, as moral codes and legal imperatives painfully collide.
Set in the Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, The Scarlet Letter also sheds light on the nineteenth-century in which it was written, as Hawthorne explores his ambivalent relations with his Puritan forebears. The text of this edition is taken from the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's works, the most authoritative critical edition.
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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 most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction.

Biografie (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) stammte aus einer puritanischen Neuengland-Familie. Er war Journalist, arbeitete als Zollinspektor und wurde Konsul in Liverpool. Nach einer mehrjährigen Europa-Reise in die Heimat zurückgekehrt, starb er, erschüttert über den amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. Hawthorne gilt als Begründer des psychologischen Romans in den USA.