The Scarlet Letter Mass market paperbound - 2009
by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Brenda Wineapple; Afterword by Regina Barreca
Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses America's Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart, Hawthorne has fashioned a masterpiece of American fiction. Revised reissue.
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The Scarlett Letter was one of the first mass-produced novels in the United States, prior printing of books generally done by hand. The 2,500 copies first printed sold out in days, and the mass-production of books opened up conversation about books and authors to a wider-audience on a national level. The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and "made Hawthorne´s fame, changed his fortune and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the appearance of Melville´s Moby-Dick" (Bradley). Although an instant best-seller, the books sales over fourteen years only brought the author $1500.
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Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart, Hawthorne fashioned a masterpiece of American fiction.
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First edition published by Ticknor, Reeds and Fields, in Boston 1850. Main first edition marker is "reduplicate" instead of "repudiate" on page 21 Four page publisher's adverts at front dated March 1, 1850 and preceding the free end paper. The brown T-cloth favored by Ticknor & Fields is famous for becoming brittle with age, and cracking or fraying at the spine tips. First editions can run upwards of $20,000.
The second edition adds a preface and has a Metcalf imprint on verso of title-page. The third printing has the same preface but has a Hobart & Robbins imprint on verso of title-page.
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- Title The Scarlet Letter
- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Brenda Wineapple; Afterword by Regina Barreca
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Book
- Publication date 2009-08-04
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780451531353 / 0451531353
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.22 x 0.78 in (17.02 x 10.72 x 1.98 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 410
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010277296
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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