The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Knjige - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781722120351 - 1. julija 2018
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The Scarlet Letter

In an extended introduction, Hawthorne describes his employment in the Salem Custom House, and how he purportedly found an old document and a piece of cloth embroidered with the letter "A" in a pile of old papers. This fictitious document being the germ of the story that Hawthorne writes, as follows. In June 1638, in a Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne, a young woman who has given birth to a baby of unknown parentage. She is required to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress when she is in front of the townspeople to shame her. The letter "A" stands for adulteress, although this is never said explicitly in the novel. Her "punishment" (because adultery was illegal at the time) is to stand on the scaffold for three hours, exposed to public humiliation, and to wear the scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. As Hester approaches the scaffold, many of the women in the crowd are angered by her beauty and quiet dignity. When demanded and cajoled to name the father of her child, Hester refuses.

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Izdano 1. julija 2018
ISBN13 9781722120351
Založniki Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Strani 348
Dimenzije 152 × 229 × 18 mm   ·   467 g
Jezik Angleščina  

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