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The scarlet letter and other writings : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Leland S. Person.

Title: The scarlet letter and other writings : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Leland S. Person.
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Publication: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.

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Additional Authors

Person, Leland S.

Description

xv, 744 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Presents an annotated edition of "The Scarlet Letter," the story of a young wife convicted of adultery in seventeenth-century New England, and includes five shorter works by Hawthorne, a selection of the author's letters and notebook entries, and critical commentary.

Series Statement

Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Norton critical edition

Subject

Genre/Form

Psychological fiction
Aufsatzsammlung.
Historical fiction
Fiction
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 735-744).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The Scarlet Letter. Preface to the second edition -- The Custom-House -- The Scarlet Letter -- Other writings. Mrs. Hutchinson -- Endicott and the Red Cross -- Young Goodman Brown -- The Minister's Black Veil -- The Birth-mark -- Contexts. Nathaniel Hawthorne : From American notebooks -- From letters -- From the life of Franklin Pierce -- Criticism. Nineteenth-century reviews of The Scarlet Letter -- Puritan background and sources -- The Custom House -- The Scarlet Letter -- Other writings -- Nathaniel Hawthorne : A Chronology -- Selected Bibliography.

ISBN

0393979539 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004054775

OCLC

55871107
SCSB-12557990

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library