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Title: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0-553-21009-2 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1965 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (296 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't Miss the Classics
Comment: My personal rating system is simple.
* = Stay away from this junk!
*** = I did not like the book.
**** = I did like the book.
***** = Years later the book is still etched in my mind and elicits an emotion or life change.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne rates a *****
Rating: 2
Summary: Absolute Waste of Time
Comment: My 11th grade English teacher tortured me with this morbid book and I can't say if I'll ever forgive her. Not only was this this book boring but Hawthorne unnecesary uses all sorts of complex language to convey one simple thought. The only reason that I didn't give this book 1 star was because there was some art in the book and symbolism. WAY OVERRATED.
Rating: 3
Summary: Dark tale
Comment: I was introduced to Hawthorne rather late in life, having shunned the classics and literature during my high-school and college years as impractical and not relevant. Now almost twenty years removed high-school, I recently started reading some classics, on my own terms, to find out what I had missed.
The Scarlett Letter, on its face, is about the impact that an adulterous liason has on Hester Prynne and the small Puritan community she resides. Hester, as punishment for breaking the moral code of the era, is sentenced to wear the scarlett letter A - signifying her as an adulteress. Hawthorne, through this short tale ,seems also to be making a statement about the self-righteous hypocrisy of the Puritans. While Hester is portrayed as the scourge of the community for having been caught in a moral lapse, the scarlett letter seems to endow her with the power to see the hidden transgressions of her accusers: "She shuddered to believe, yet could not help believing that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts. She was terrorstricken by the revelations that were thus made."
Although a very dark tale, allowing us a glimpse into the darkside of zealotry and revenge, I thoroughly enjoyed Hawthorne's depiction of it. His style, which I initially found to be ponderous and wordy, especially in the introductory piece The Custom House, grew on me as I progressed and at the end found myself enjoying.
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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801523 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye ISBN: 0142437174 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Cliffs Notes) by Cliffs Notes, Susan Van Kirk ISBN: 076458605X Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 22 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Catcher in the Rye Mass Market - Paperback by J.D. Salinger ISBN: 0316769487 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142000663 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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