The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert MilderSet in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 288
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780143107668
ISBN 10: 0143107666