The Scarlet Letter

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.

Scarlet Letter (Terjemahan)

Hester Pryme, seorang wanita muda yang cantik, berdiri di atas mimbar hukuman sambil menggendong bayi mungilnya, dengan pakaian berhiaskan huruf A merah di dadanya. ia menjadi tontonan penduduk kota yang mencela serta mengutuk perbuatannya yang dianggap tak bermoral. Ia telah berselingkuh, dan dari perselingkuhannya itu telah lahir seorang bayi perempuan. ia rela menjalani hukuman itu, ia me…

Snow Comes To The Farm

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9780744594164

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The Scarlett Letter

The Scarlet Letter is yet another story of the never-ending conflict of individuals versus society in which the recurrent theme of appearance versus reality is central and woven into different elements of the novel. The significance of this theme lies in the fact that it is adopted by both the Puritan Culture to subjugate its members and hide the truth, and by a protagonist who claims a new ide…

The House of the Seven Gables

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9780199539123

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328p; bw; pbk

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Four Classic American Novels

An omnibus edition of four of America's most influential and thought-provoking novels includes The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, and Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Reprint. An adulteress, a runaway boy, a terrified soldier, and a maltreated sailor-all the heroes of these must-read novels have beco…

The Scarlet Letter

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American ficti…

The Scarlet Letter

A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart, Hawth…

The Scralet Letter

from the back cover: Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her chil…

King Midas and The Golden Touch

Timeless stories that are fun to read and approved by educators for children ages 5-8. Retold for beginning readers.