La letra escarlata by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"La letra escarlata" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a historical novel published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts during the 1640s, it follows Hester Prynne, who bears a child outside marriage and must wear a scarlet letter "A" as punishment for adultery. As Hester struggles to rebuild her life with dignity, her secret lover suffers in silence while her vengeful husband seeks to unmask him. This tale explores themes of sin, guilt, and
redemption in early America's strict religious society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 |
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| Translator | Francisco, Sellén |
| Uniform Title | The scarlet letter. Spanish |
| Title |
La letra escarlata novela escrita en inglés |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_letra_escarlata |
| Credits |
Produced by David Starner, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 43.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Adultery -- Fiction |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Revenge -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Married women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Clergy -- Fiction |
| Subject | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Illegitimate children -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women immigrants -- Fiction |
| Subject | Puritans -- Fiction |
| Subject | Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 36990 |
| Release Date | Aug 6, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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