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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Scarlet Letter (Oxford World's Classics) List Price: $4.95 Price: $1.20 You Save: $3.75 (76%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3 EAN: 9780192817532 ISBN: 0192817531 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: September 20, 1990 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength to emerge as a true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of the self-divided--trapped by the rules of society. 2 cassettes. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good Writing, Bad HistoryHawthorne, you hater. The way this book was written in the 19th century to make a point about the 19th century. Along the way, it violently misrepresents the 17th-century Puritans, who were generally cheerful, generous, and non-legalistic people. They even wore colorful clothing (gasp!). Some of the deepest and most beautiful Christian books that the world has ever known came from Puritans (the Valley of Vision prayer book, for instance). I'm incensed at the way 'The Scarlet ... Read More Rating:  - One of the best novels ever'The Scarlet Letter' is a beautifully written and perfectly balanced classic of American literature, addressing in a lean 251 pages countless issues of the human experience: love, the nature of sin and shame and repentance, revenge and mercy, civilization and wild, society and ostracism. In bald terms, 'The Scarlet Letter' is absolutely one of the best pieces of writing ever, um, written. A lot of people seem to take umbrage at Hawthorne's affected 19th-century style. My advice to you: get ... Read More Rating:  - Sin, Redemption I think the many readers who were forced to partake of this classic were angry at their English teacher for making them read a book so wordy, detailed, and archaic in language. Many of the reviewers' complaints are about the author's style, which is definitely an acquired taste. Hawthorne doesn't merely give you a scene; he tries to tell you what time it is, how and why it is happening, and what each character is thinking as they enter the room. In this way, this can be a turn off to a leisurely reader; ... Read More Rating: - Hawthorne's MasterpieceHawthorne's Scarlet Letter is a tale of secret love, adultery, and sadness. Every person should read this timeless American novel at some point in their life. The strength of Hester Prynne is unusual for novels composed during the time this was published, and is therefore a revolutionary literary work. My only complaint is the length of "The Custom House," however horrible this sounds, I would just skip it, it does not add to the plot of the novel anyway. Rating: - A wonderful piece of literature, howeverI completely agree with most HS students that this book should be optional reading for them because HS teachers should very well know that there are many different minds that need very different kinds of reading material and exposure to variety is not always a good thing that's why you end up having reviews of books like this by some HS students who puke on it rather then have savored it like I did. My reasons for really loving this book is because of the historical/puritan life and manners I like to read ... Read More 
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