书名：The Scarlet Letter 红字

作者：Nathaniel Hawthorne

出版社名称：Penguin Classics

出版时间：2016

语种：英语

ISBN：9780143107668

商品尺寸：1.91 x 12.9 x 19.69 cm

包装：平装

页数：288（以实物为准）

The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert MilderSet in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where he wrote the bulk of his masterful tales of American colonial history. His career as a novelist began with The Scarlet Letter (1850) and also includes The house of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun.