The scarlet letter

Author(s)

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Bibliographic Information

The scarlet letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustrated with scenes from the photoplay, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture starring Lillian Gish

Grosset & Dunlap, [1---]

Note

Summary: Set in Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter tells the disturbing tale of Hester Prynne, a woman caught in the conflict between the Puritan ethics of her community and the higher law of her own love. In this tragic tale, we see the struggle between the laws of scripture and those of a different moral authority

Details

• NCID: BB00740041
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: v, 278 p., [12] leaves of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Illegitimate children -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Puritans -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Adultery -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Clergy -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Married women -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Women immigrants -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Revenge -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction