The Scarlet Letter

Autor:
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Wyd. w latach:
1946 - 2023
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The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale recalls the story of Adam and Eve because, in both cases, sin results in expulsion and suffering. But it also results in knowledge – specifically, in knowledge of what it means to be immoral. For Hester, the Scarlet Letter is a physical manifestation of her sin and reminder of her painful solitude. She contemplates casting it off to obtain her freedom from an oppressive society and a checkered past as well as the absence of God. Because the society excludes her, she considers the possibility that many of the traditions held up by the Puritan culture are untrue and are not designed to bring her happiness. As for Dimmesdale, the "cheating minister", his sin gives him "sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind, so that his chest vibrate[s] in unison with theirs." His eloquent and powerful sermons derive from this sense of empathy. The narrative of the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is quite in keeping with the oldest and most fully authorized principles in Christian thought. His "Fall" is a descent from apparent grace to his own damnation; he appears to begin in purity but he ends in corruption. The subtlety is that the minister's belief is his own cheating, convincing himself at every stage of his spiritual pilgrimage that he is saved. The rose bush, its beauty a striking contrast to all that surrounds it – as later the beautifully embroidered scarlet "A" will be held out in part as an invitation to find "some sweet moral blossom" in the ensuing, tragic tale and in part as an image that "the deep heart of nature" (perhaps God) may look more kind on the errant Hester and her child than her Puritan neighbors do. Throughout the work, the nature images contrast with the stark darkness of the Puritans and their systems.

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Inne tytuły:Szkarłatna litera
Autor:Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Adaptacja:Chris Rice John Escott
Opracowanie:Chris Rice Andy Hopkins Joc Potter Jocelyn Potter
Wstęp:Carl Van Doren
Ilustracje:Nell Booker Thomas Sperling Andrew Wheatcroft
Wydawcy:Librofilio (2023) Legimi (2012-2023) Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing (2022) Books on Demand (2018-2022) FilRougeViceversa (2021) Markus Brenner Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (2021) Alma Classics (2021) Ale. Mar (2020) KtoCzyta.pl (2019) Ventigo Media (2019) IBUK Libra (2019) NASBI (2019) ebookpoint BIBLIO (2019) BookRix (2018) Kore Enterprises (2018) Qasim Idrees (2018) Youcanprint (2018) epf (2018) Sheba Blake Publishing (2017-2018) BertaBooks (2017) E-BOOKARAMA (2017) GIANLUCA (2017) Enhanced Media Publishing (2016) LVL Editions (2016) Re-Image Publishing (2016) Passerino Editore (2015) Nathaniel Hawthorne (2014) Kitabu (2014) Jazzybee Verlag (2013) Interactive Media (2012) Pearson Education (2008) Oxford University Press (2008) Penguin Books (1994-2008) Bantam Books (1986-2003) Modern Library (2000) Dover Publications INC (1994) Pa Kangaroo Book (1977) Fine Editions Press (1946) Alma Books
Serie wydawnicze:Penguin Popular Classics Penguin Readers Penguin Classics The Modern Library classics A Bantam Classic 170143 Penguin Readers. Elementary Penguin Readers. Level 2
ISBN:2200000161543 9782322462186 9782384613304 9783736802728 9783849640941 9783936137255 9783961898732 9783985513208 9783986777975 0-14-039019-7 0-553-21009-2 0-671-48845-7 0-691-09612-0 978-0-14-062080-1 978-0-14-062354-3 978-0-19-479153-3 978-0-19-479183-0 978-1-4058-5534-1 978-1-4058-7872-2 978-1-4082-7721-8 978-1-84749-421-4 978-83-8200-215-7 0-14-06280-X
Autotagi:audiobooki beletrystyka dokumenty elektroniczne druk e-booki epika książki literatura literatura faktu literatura piękna literatura stosowana nagrania podręczniki powieści proza zasoby elektroniczne
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