The Scarlet Letter (Solis Classics)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,Lawrence, D. H.

ISBN 10: 1907947965 / ISBN 13: 9781907947964

Verlag: Solis Press, 2014

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Includes a discussion of the novel by D. H. Lawrence.

First published in 1850, this book is considered one of America's greatest novels.

The publication of The Scarlet Letter was in the United States a literary event of the first importance. The book was the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. There was a consciousness of this in the welcome that was given it—a satisfaction in the idea of America having produced a novel that belonged to literature, and to the forefront of it. Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite in quality as anything that had been received, and the best of it was that the thing was absolutely American; it belonged to the soil, to the air; it came out of the very heart of New England.
It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne’s best things—an indefinable purity and lightness of conception, a quality which in a work of art affects one in the same way as the absence of grossness does in a human being.
Hawthorne laid his hand upon the well-worn theme, upon the familiar combination of the wife, the lover, and the husband, it was after all but to one period of the history of these three persons that he attached himself. The situation is the situation after the woman’s fault has been committed, and the current of expiation and repentance has set in. In spite of the relation between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, no story of love was surely ever less of a "love story." (Henry James in Hawthorne.)

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Scarlet Letter (Solis Classics)
Verlag: Solis Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good