Author Name:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Title:
The Scarlet Letter MODERN LIBRARY # 93
Binding:
Hard Cover
Book Condition:
Very Good
Jacket Condition:
No Jacket
Edition:
Reprint Edition
Size:
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Publisher:
New York
The Modern Library
Seller ID:
006040
MODERN LIBRARY # 93. The Modern Library of the World's Best Books Introduction by William Lyon Phelps. "Hawthorne set this novel in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. The Scarlet Letter is a poignant study of the havoc wrought by an act of adultery in the hearts and consciousness of a husband, his wife and her lover. The woman, Hester Prynne (according to the laws of the time), suffers public persecution for her transgression; the man finds himself shunned in subtler and more secret ways. 'The Puritans were nonconformists who demanded conformity, As Hawthorne wrote elsewhere; 'Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank him, not less fervently, for being one step further from them in the march of ages.' That remark could have served well as the motto for The Scarlet Letter." RG4 Very good gray cloth. Gilt titles. Slight wear, soiling, previous owner name inside, marginalia. Gray Kent D Endpapers. Toledano binding # 8. (n.d., Circa 1939), xvi, 303pp.
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