| Title | : | The Scarlet Letter (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Release | : | 2025-01-13 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | The Scarlet Letter (Unabridged) | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Considered his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's story of Hester Prynne and her daughter, Pearl, conceived through an adulterous affair with a Puritan pastor in 17th century Boston. From start to finish, the book explores the themes of law, guilt, and sin. Since its appearance in 1850, this magnificent book has been a perennial favorite among young and old, though it was extremely controversial when it was first published. Henry James described the novel thusly: "It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne's best things - an indefinable purity and lightness of conception. One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art." |
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