The Scarlet Letter

By Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Book Id: WPLBN0000627357
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Title:	The Scarlet Letter
Author:	Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Hawthorne, N. (n.d.). The Scarlet Letter. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty?six, and a tale writer of some twenty?four years? standing, when ?The Scarlet Letter? appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804, son of a sea?captain. He led there a shy and rather sombre life; of few artistic encouragements, yet not wholly uncongenial, his moody, intensely meditative temperament being considered. Its colours and shadows are marvelously reflected in his ?Twice?Told Tales? and other short stories, the product of his first literary period. Even his college days at Bowdoin did not quite break through his acquired and inherited reserve; but beneath it all, his faculty of divining men and women was exercised with almost uncanny prescience and subtlety. ?The Scarlet Letter,? which explains as much of this unique imaginative art, as is to be gathered from reading his highest single achievement, yet needs to be ranged with his other writings, early and late, to have its last effect.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Scarlet Letter, 1 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1 -- EDITOR'S NOTE, 1 -- THE CUSTOM?HOUSE, 2 -- THE SCARLET LETTER, 20 -- I. THE PRISON DOOR, 20 -- II. THE MARKET?PLACE, 20 -- III. THE RECOGNITION, 25 -- IV. THE INTERVIEW, 29 -- V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 32 -- VI. PEARL, 36 -- VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL, 41 -- VIII. THE ELF?CHILD AND THE MINISTER, 44 -- IX. THE LEECH, 49 -- X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT, 53 -- XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART, 58 -- XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL, 61 -- XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER, 66 -- XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN, 70 -- XV. HESTER AND PEARL, 73 -- XVI. A FOREST WALK, 76 -- XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER, 80 -- XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE, 85 -- XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE, 87 -- XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE, 91 -- XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY, 96 -- XXII. THE PROCESSION, 100 -- XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER, 105 -- XXIV. Conclusion, 109