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Author Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Title The scarlet letter [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; introduction by Nina Baym ; notes by Thomas E. Connolly ; enriched eBook features editor, Monika Elbert.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2008.
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System Details Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 7605 KB).
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"A Penguin enriched eBook classic."
Summary A young woman, publicly scorned for bearing an illegitimate child, refuses to be vanquished by the seventeenth-century Boston community.
Bibliography Includes filmography.
Includes bibliographical references.
Note Special features: How to navigate ; filmography ; nineteenth-century reviews ; chronology of Hawthorne's life and times with images ; historical timeline of Old and New England (Massachusetts Bay Colony, 17th century) ; witchcraft and The Scarlet Letter with images and Martha Corey's testimony ; Puritan pleasures and punishments with images ; Puritan child-rearing and Puritan children ; Puritan fashion and The Scarlet Letter: the good, the bad and the bizarre with images ; Hester Prynne and 19th-century women's rights movements ; bibliography and further reading ; images of The Scarlet Letter ; enriched eBook notes.
Subject Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Puritans -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Clergy -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Electronic books.
Psychological fiction.
Added Author Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-
ISBN 9781440656484 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
1440656487 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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