The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne; Harold Bloom (Editor)
(Library of America, Paperback, 9781598531121, 272pp.)
Publication Date: September 2011
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
Categories: General
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Description
Set within the richly imagined confines of Puritan Boston, here is Hawthorne's classic allegory of shame and sexuality, introduced by the acclaimed critic Harold Bloom: "If we have a national heroine of our version of the Protestant will in America," Bloom writes, "then it must be Hester Prynne, Hawthorne's triumph."












