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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 晧四郎 木畑
- 1850
Jun 21, 2024 · The Scarlet Letter, novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. The work centers on Hester Prynne, a married woman who is shunned after bearing a child out of wedlock but displays great compassion and resiliency. The novel is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study.
- Ronan Mcdonald
Apr 2, 2014 · Author Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of Seven Gables,' and also wrote many short stories. Updated: Mar 31, 2021 Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images
May 15, 2024 · Nathaniel Hawthorne (born July 4, 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire) is one of the greatest fiction writers of 19th-century American literature. A master of the allegorical and symbolic tale, he remains best known for the novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).
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Mar 16, 2015 · March 16, 1850: 'The Scarlet Letter' is published. March 16, 1850: 'The Scarlet Letter' is published. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote secret stories in invisible ink (actually, ...
The Scarlet Letter opens with a long preamble about how the book came to be written. The nameless narrator was the surveyor of the customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts. In the customhouse’s attic, he discovered a number of documents, among them a manuscript that was bundled with a scarlet, gold-embroidered patch of cloth in the shape of an “A.”
Learn about the author, narrator, setting, plot, themes, motifs, and symbols of The Scarlet Letter, a classic American novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Find out how the book explores sin, experience, identity, and society in the seventeenth-century Massachusetts.
