The Scarlet Letter - Paperback

by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

"The Scarlet Letter is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has...an indefinable purity and lightness of conception...and has the charm and mystery of great works of art." HENRY JAMES

"...alive with the miraculous vitality of genius." The Atlantic Monthly

Author Biography

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. His first novel Fanshaw appeared in 1828, and he subsequently published short stories, collected as Twice-Told Tales in 1837. He is best known for the novels The Scarlet Letter (1850), considered his masterwork, and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). He passed away in 1864.