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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] 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.
"Hester Prynne & Pearl before the stocks", an illustration by Mary Hallock Foote from an 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors for having a child out of wedlock. The character has been called ...
Roger Chillingworth is a fictional character and primary antagonist in the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is an English scholar who moves to the New World after his wife, Hester Prynne.
Hibbins was fictionalized in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. [nb 2] In the novel, the central character, Hester Prynne, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to wearing the letter "A" upon her outer garment, comes in frequent contact with the witch, Mistress Hibbins.
Lockhart's biographer Andrew Lang praised the novel, comparing its theme to the later 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, as did Henry James. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its full title is Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair .
The novel is a dystopian reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, set in a future theocratic America where rather than being imprisoned and rehabilitated, criminals are punished by being "chromed" – having their skin color genetically altered to fit their crime – and released into the general population to survive as best ...
The Scarlet Letters is an English language novel published in 1953 by American author Ellery Queen. [2] It is a mystery novel set primarily in New York City. Plot summary
The development of American literature coincided with the nation's development, especially of its identity. [1] Calls for an "autonomous national literature" first appeared during the American Revolution, [2] and, by the mid-19th century, the possibility of American literature exceeding its European counterparts began to take shape, as did that of the Great American Novel, this time being the ...