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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Scarlet Letter eBook
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The complete online text of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.


Author Biography

Name: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Birth Date: July 4, 1804
Death Date: May 19, 1864
Place of Birth: Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
16160 words, approx. 53.9 pages
Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...
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Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
12022 words, approx. 40.1 pages
When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...
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Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
9066 words, approx. 30.2 pages
In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...
 


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The Scarlet Letter Summary
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne In "The Custom-House," the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne fabricates a story in which he explains that he stumbled upon a worn piece of red cloth in the shape of an A while working in...
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The Scarlet Letter Information
4,182 words, approx. 14 pages
The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. Set in Puritanical Boston in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth...


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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08/19/2004: 892 words, approx. 3 pages
BRAD SEARS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-19-2004 The scarlet letter By BRAD SEARS Date: 08-19-2004, Thursday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B "Hester Prynne... for so long a period not merely estranged, but...
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The Village Voice
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02/22/2006: 323 words, approx. 1 pages
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Web groups claim victory in bill defeat
6/30/2007: 586 words, approx. 2 pages
Online groups took credit Friday for leading the grass-roots opposition against an immigration reform bill, saying they persuaded Americans to flood Congress with hundreds of thousands of phone calls, faxes and e-mails."We think it was a rising tide of citizen response that forced the senators...
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Britain's queen takes up YouTube
12/23/2007: 467 words, approx. 2 pages
Britain's 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube Sunday.The queen will use the popular video-sharing Web site to send out her 50th annual televised Christmas message, which she first delivered live to the nation and...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Tamkang Review
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In the following essay, the critic examines the relationship between sex and the law as treated by Hawthorne and Updike in their respective novels The Scarlet Letter and S.
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Critical Essay by Janice B. Daniel
5,566 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Daniel examines Nathaniel Hawthorne's personification of nature in The Scarlet Letter as a rhetorical device.
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
217 words, approx. 1 pages
[Arthur Dimmesdale is] Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter revisited—to no apparent purpose. Dimmesdale, you'll remember, is the Puritan minister tortured by his association with the sin for which Hester Prynne wears the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. Larson's Dimmesdale, however, is an explicit adulterer who gets Hester with child and damns both; his suffering afterwards is mental (a Puritan conscience and hell-fire fear inflamed beyond balm) and physical (stigmataȁ...
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Essay Grade: 88%
Puritianism and Literary Techniques in "The Scarlet Letter"
3,794 words, approx. 13 pages
The symbolism of good and evil and the negative effect of Puritanism in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also, the literary techniques used by Hawthorne, such as symbolism, irony and ambiguity.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Symbolism in the Classic Novel, "The Scarlet Letter"
3,588 words, approx. 12 pages
A short biography of author Nathaniel Hawthorne and an analysis of his classic novel, "The Scarlet Letter" and the use of color as symbolism.
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Characters and Setting in "The Scarlet Letter"
3,494 words, approx. 12 pages
Sketches of the major and minor characters in Nathanial Hawthorn's "The Scarlet Letter," including Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester and Roger Chillingworth. Plus, an explanation of the settings and symbolism in the novel.
 


The Scarlet Letter Study Pack

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