01360nam a2200277Ia 450000500170000000800410001724500470005810000480010526000480015330000310020130000110023250000190024302000180026265000130028065000260029365000130031965000400033265000210037265300700039305000210046354600150048452005480049933600090104733700150105633800110107120260803094226.0251212s2010    xx            000 0 und d1 aThe Scarlet Letter /cNathaniel Hawthrone.  aHawthorne, Nathaniel,d1804-1864, (author.)  aLondon :bHarperCollins Publishers,cc2010.  a324 pages: billustrations  c17 cm.  aIncludes index  a9780007350926  aAdultery  aIllegitimate children  aPuritans  aTriangles (Interpersonal relations)  aWomen immigrants  aBoston (Mass.)xHistory--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775vFiction.  a813.3 H31s c2010  ain English  aA tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne`s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.  atext  aunmediated  avolume