Synopses & Reviews
Have you ever tried to read
The Scarlet Letter but realized midway through the second sentence that you were already lost?
No Fear: The Scarlet Letter will change all that. No need to worry about losing the thread anymore: whenever Hawthornes sentences become too convoluted to follow, or you cant figure out exactly what hes talking about, simply look across at the right-hand page and a simplified, modernized textusing the kind of English we actually speak todaywill set you back on track. Soon youll be reading Hawthornes own words fearlesslyand actually enjoying it. ((Sales Points)) - Part of a very successful series
- The Scarlet Letter is a required book in many high school and university English classes, and this will help students understand Hawthornes classic novel
Synopsis
Hawthorne's greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter, is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that The Scarlet Letter is a serious historical novel. If Hawthorne's fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester and Dimmesdale to the limits of seventeenth-century possibility, it nonetheless looks forward to the better, brighter world of Margaret Fuller and Fanny Fern, of Charles Fourier and John Humphrey Noyes.
The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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No Fear: The Scarlet Letter gives you the original tales on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Featuring the complete text of the original novel, a line-by-line translation that puts Hawthorne into everyday language, a complete list of characters with descriptions, and plenty of helpful commentary, No Fear: The Scarlet Letter allows you to read this masterpiece in all its brilliance--and actually understand it means
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A modern English translation of The scarlet letter.