"Thou and thine,
Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims
his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and
Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery
visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search
for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to
protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very
different men, as moral codes and legal imperatives painfully collide. Set in
the Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, The Scarlet Letter also
sheds light on the nineteenth century in which it was written, as Hawthorne
explores his ambivalent relations with his Puritan forebears. The text of this
edition is taken from the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's works, the most authoritative
critical edition. It includes a new, wide-ranging introduction that sheds light
on the novel's autobiographical, historical, and literary contexts, a
comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography, and thorough notes that provide
essential information on Puritan and nineteenth-century life.
Autor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Publicación: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008
Este libro es una nueva adquisición del Sistema de Bibliotecas, y desde ahora puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral, Colección general, 813/H399sc
