Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Hailed by Henry James as the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter reaches to our. The text of this edition is taken from the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's works, the most authoritative critical edition.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very different men, as moral codes and legal imperatives painfully collide. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. 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. With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. 'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.'
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