The Scarlet Letter (Wordsworth Classics)

Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.

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.

Title - The Scarlet Letter (Wordsworth Classics)

Edition -

Author - Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 13 - 9781853260292

Imprint - Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Publisher - Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Date Published - 05/05/1992

Prize -

No. of pages - 224

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 12mm

Weight - 144 g

Languages - English