Description
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.
However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.
Book Information
ISBN 9781853260292
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Weight(grams) 144g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 12mm