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Hawthorne's classic treatise on morality, judgment, and exile in
Puritan America.
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内容简介
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The story of Hester
Prynne-found out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community,
and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and
her vengeance-seeking husband-possesses a reality heightened by
Hawthorne's pure human sympathy and his unmixed devotion to his
supposedly fallen but fundamentally innocent heroine. In its moral
force and the beauty of its conciliations, "The Scarlet Letter"
rightly deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an
American, the novel that announced an American literature equal to
any in the world.