内容简介
The Scarlet Letter is the tragic story of a woman's shame and the cruel treatment she suffers at the hands of the Puritan society in which she lives.
A settler in New England,Hester Prynne has waited two years for her husband,an ageing English scholar,to join her.He arrives to find her in the pillory,a small baby in her arms.She must,as a punishment for her adultery,wear a scarlet A embroidered on her breast and is consequently ostracized by her contemptuous neighbours.
作者简介
Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-64)was born at Salem in Massachusetts to one of New England's oldest Puritan families.He was a direct descendant of William Hawthorne ,notorious for his persecution of the Quakers,and of his son John,a prominent figure in the late-seventeenth-century witch hunts.The sins of his fathers lay heavily on Hawthorne's conscience and he suffered great guilt on their behalf,which is reflected in the vigorous attacks on Puritanism found in much of his work.
A settler in New England,Hester Prynne has waited two years for her husband,an ageing English scholar,to join her.He arrives to find her in the pillory,a small baby in her arms.She must,as a punishment for her adultery,wear a scarlet A embroidered on her breast and is consequently ostracized by her contemptuous neighbours.
作者简介
Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-64)was born at Salem in Massachusetts to one of New England's oldest Puritan families.He was a direct descendant of William Hawthorne ,notorious for his persecution of the Quakers,and of his son John,a prominent figure in the late-seventeenth-century witch hunts.The sins of his fathers lay heavily on Hawthorne's conscience and he suffered great guilt on their behalf,which is reflected in the vigorous attacks on Puritanism found in much of his work.