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The scarlet letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 - Author
London : Penguin Books, 1994 - 224 s. ; 18 cm
ISBN 978-0-14-062354-3
Penguin Popular Classics
americké rományCall number C 398.709 Title statement The scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne Main entry-name Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 (Author) Issue data London : Penguin Books, 1994 Phys.des. 224 s. ; 18 cm ISBN 978-0-14-062354-3 Edition Penguin Popular Classics Form, Genre americké romány Conspect 821.111(73)-3 - Americká próza UDC 821.111(73)-31 , (0:82-31) Country Velká Británie Language angličtina Document kind BOOKS Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a seld divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl. As Nina Baym writes in her Introduction, "The Scarlet Letter" was not written as realistic, historical fiction, but as a 'romance', a creation of the imagination that discloses the truth of the human heart. Zdroj anotace: Web obalkyknih.czLoading…
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