Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Hawthorne
Author First Name:
Nathaniel
Pages:
302
Binding:
Mass Market Paperback
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN 10:
1853260290
ISBN 13:
9781853260292
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date Published:
1/1/1966
Genre:
Classics
Description
This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.
