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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.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Another literary figure using the surname Prynne is a woman who had an adulterous relationship with a pastor in the novel A Month of Sundays by John Updike, part of his trilogy of novels based on characters in The Scarlet Letter. [1] In the musical The Music Man, Harold Hill refers to Hester Prynne in the song "Sadder but Wiser Girl". He sings ...
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in English literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on ...
Signature Theatre Company performed In The Blood from August 29, 2017 to October 8, 2017 alongside Fucking A (also by Suzan-Lori Parks and inspired by The Scarlet Letter). [7] The University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film studies most recently produced In The Blood from February 15, 2019 through February 24, 2019. This production was ...
Critical response to The Scarlet Letter miniseries was mixed. [3] Marvin Kitman conceded that it might be "heresy" to criticize such ambitious programming, but he faulted the first episode's pacing, saying "it moves like a gastropod" and "there is a lot of sewing going on." He found Foster's performance too repressed. [6]
1984 short story collections (34 P) Pages in category "1984 books" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The Scarlet Letter (Damrosch opera), an 1896 opera based on the novel; The Scarlet Letter (Kroll opera), a 1965 opera composed by Fredric Kroll based on the novel; The Scarlet Letter (Laitman opera), a 2008 opera based on the novel; The Scarlet Letter, a 2014 album by Lil' Mo "Scarlet Letters" (song), a 2009 song by Mudvayne