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The Scarlet Letter is a fictional account of a woman scorned by Puritan society. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of America’s greatest authors, was intrigued by Puritan history and made it a major subject in many of his works. The Scarlet Letter is the most significant of these works and Hawthorne uses America’s Puritan heritage to disparage those whose intolerance oppresses anyone who thinks differently from them.
The novel takes place in a small, Puritan settlement. A woman, Hester Prynn, arrives in American before her much older husband. While waiting for her husband, she has an affair with an unnamed man with led to a child she names Pearl. The elders of the settlement punish her by forcing her to wear a scarlet letter A on her dress, the A standing for “adultery.” She is shunned by her neighbors and is constantly pressured to reveal the name of her child’s father. Stubbornly, she refuses. Unbeknownst to Hester, her husband, a doctor who has dubbed himself Roger Chillingworth, has secretly arrived in the settlement and is plotting his revenge against her and the man who impregnated her. Chillingworth is a contemptible villain. He methodically tracks down the mysterious and unexpected father of Hester’s child and uses guilt to psychologically torment him. Tensions rise as Hester realizes what is happening, and the climactic scene of the novel contains a shocking turn of events that affects the entire settlement.
Lovingly recreated as an mp3 audio this CD contains the timeless story of The Scarlet Letter. Now you can enjoy it again and again
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Version: Unabridged
Language: English
Reader: Various
Format: MP3 Audio CD
Tracks / Chapters: 26 Chapters
Total running time: 08:56:11
Version: Unabridged
Reader: Various/English
Format: MP3 Audio CD
Tracks / Chapters: 26 Chapters
Total running time: 08:56:11
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