Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne - Signet mm paperback)

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN: 9780451531353

Binding: mass market paperback

Section: Fiction

An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging vengeful husband — these are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this dramatic depiction of the struggle between mind and heart illuminates Hawthorne's concern with our Puritan past and its influence on American life.