Tempo di lettura stimato:
9h 36m
Genere: Amore, Classici, Diritto
Editore: Penguin Books
Anno: 2012
Lingua: Inglese
Rilegatura: Flessibile
Pagine: 288 Pagine
Isbn 10: 0141199458
Isbn 13: 9780141199450
Trama
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic study of a seld divided; trapped by the rules of society, he suppresses his passion and disavows his lover, Hester, and their daughter, Pearl. As Nina Baym writes in her Introduction, The Scarlet Letter was not written as realistic, historical fiction, but as a "romance", a creation of the imagination that discloses the truth of the human heart.
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