The scarlet letter
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1998Description: xlviii,302pISBN: 0192833715Subject(s): American-fictionDDC classification: 813.3 Summary: When an elderly English scholar discovers his young wife in the pillory, cradling an illegitimate child and wearing a scarlet A for Adulteress, he disguises himself as a doctor and begins a cruel and destructive search for the father of the child. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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When an elderly English scholar discovers his young wife in the pillory, cradling an illegitimate child and wearing a scarlet A for Adulteress, he disguises himself as a doctor and begins a cruel and destructive search for the father of the child. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.
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