The Scarlet Letter
By (author): "Paul Lauter, Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Publish Date:
March 16th 1850
ISBN0618107347
ISBN139780618107346
AsinThe Scarlet Letter
CharactersHester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl Prynne
Original titleThe Scarlet Letter
In addition to the text of the first edition of the novel, the New Riverside Edition of The Scarlet Letter contains a wide variety of contextual materials and scholarly essays. Contexts includes additional writings and letters by Hawthorne, as well as essays on the New England sources of the novel and the novel's publication history. Criticism contains early reviews of the novel and critical readings from the 19th century (such as an excerpt from Henry James' book Hawthorne) to the present.
