Illustrated Classics Collection - The Scarlet Letter

Illustrated Classics Collection - The Scarlet LetterThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.About the AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer, born in Salem, Massachusetts. His works are based largely on historical evevnts in New England, and The Scarlet Letter remains his most popular work.