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The Scarlet Letter Free Kindle Ebook

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First published in 1850, "The Scarlet Letter" is Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart.
Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark power and emotional depth that has mesmerized critics and readers for nearly a century and a half.

The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. —Henry James
[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy. —Malcolm Cowley
There could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than "The Scarlet Letter". —D. H. Lawrence
The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective — wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. —Edgar Allan Poe

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First published in 1850, "The Scarlet Letter" is Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart.
Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark power and emotional depth that has mesmerized critics and readers for nearly a century and a half.

The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. —Henry James
[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy. —Malcolm Cowley
There could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than "The Scarlet Letter". —D. H. Lawrence
The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective — wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. —Edgar Allan Poe

https://www.amazon.com/Scarlet-Le...95&sr=1-18

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Aug 9, 2024
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PuckS9852
Aug 9, 2024
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This book is awful. It single-handedly got me to stop reading recreationally when I was in High School. I didnt start again until the end of college. It is atrocious. It uses old-timey language which makes it more difficult to parse than necessary, the dialog is dry and boring, and the characters are uninteresting and not compelling.

Your kid will probably have to read this in high school. Just download it from project gutenberg. Then hand them the cliff notes and tell them to never read this book because it is trash
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HelloClemFandango
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Show us where the big bad book touched you.
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pseudoswede
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Hester the Ho
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thermostat
Aug 9, 2024
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i was completely uninterested in this book in high school when it was mandatory English class reading, but i revisited it a few years ago and it's actually pretty good.
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FeistyKite520
Aug 9, 2024
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That first comment I have to upvote it simply for the basic intelligence of using project Gutenberg. I have found so many good things to read that are just copyright expired. Wonder how many years until Lord of the rings can be on there...

however if you have books in your Kindle library, I recently learned that you can ask Alexa to read them to you. so it allows you to turn a non audiobook into an audiobook to some degree.
Last edited by FeistyKite520 August 9, 2024 at 03:57 AM.

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