{"product_id":"the-scarlet-letter-american-classics-edition-a-romance-isbn-9780063481602","title":"The Scarlet Letter American Classics Edition: A Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the Library of Congress’s “Books That Shaped America” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of\u003cem\u003e The Guardian's\u003c\/em\u003e 100 Best Novels in English\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A perfect work of the American imagination.\"—D.H. Lawrence \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American classics drawn from our storied catalog. A groundbreaking tale of injustice and perseverance that grapples with the founding history of this country, Nathaniel Hawthorne's \u003cem\u003eThe Scarlet Letter \u003c\/em\u003etells the tale of one woman's dignity in the face of persecution, the threat she poses to Puritan power, and the desperate lengths people will reach to maintain the status quo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tale of sin, punishment and atonement, \u003cem\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with a \"fallen\" young mother and her illegitimate daughter. Forced to wear the scarlet “A” after committing adultery, Hester Prynne lives on the outskirts of society. Visited only by the Reverend Dimmesdale and watched over by Roger Chillingworth, she is both at the mercy of and defiantly against the immutable value system that shapes her fate and that of her child. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's strength of character that Hawthorne champions, and that has inspired feminist literature for the nearly two centuries since the novel's publication. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne's best things—an indefinable purity and lightness of conception...One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A perfect work of the American imagination.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. H. Lawrence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588067242213,"sku":"NP9780063481602","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063481602.jpg?v=1773961674","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-scarlet-letter-american-classics-edition-a-romance-isbn-9780063481602","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}