Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML: In the puritanical Boston of the 17th Century, a woman gives birth after committing adultery. That woman, Hester Prynne, choses to create a new life for herself in the face of adversity rather than succumb to what is expected of her. She will not name the father. Her decision opens up the tension between religious life and the true grace of God, and between personal guilt, religious sin and legal guilt. The novel is prefaced by a "real" account of the author finding notes on a case similar to Hestor's in a Custom House, from which he fashioned the story. The preface is to be read as fictional..
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1983.
ISBN
0140390197 / 9780140390193
Pages
283
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1850