![]() To our literature its first symbolic novel a year before theĪppearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley). ![]() Ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in Printed sold out in days, and the mass-production of books opened upĬonversation about books and authors to a wider-audience on a Printing of books generally done by hand. One of the first mass-produced novels in the United States, prior The Scarlet Letter Hailed by Henry James as the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet. ![]() ![]() Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) is considered the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'masterwork.' A work of historical fiction set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Puritan settlement of 1642-1949 itells the story of Hester Prynne, who after having a child as a result of an extra-marital affair attempts to live a life of repentance and dignity although she is marked by having to wear a Scarlett A on her person. ![]()
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