After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a...
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After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction. - ;'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 must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback in 1990
Includes bibliographical references (p. [XXXIV]-[LX])
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Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne; THE SCARLET LETTER; Preface to the Second Edition; The Custom-House-Introductory; Explanatory Notes;
