Classic Library: The Scarlett Letter

Reading and re-reading the Classics is an exercise of endless pleasure, so is publishing select titles. In what could be aptly termed as his finest achievement in the history of American fiction, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic and powerful love story woven around the classic ingredients of sin and redemption. Highlighting the human morality and psyche, the author brilliantly portrays his ostracized and humiliated heroine Hester Prynne, and her lover Arther Dimmesdale who is a village minister from whom she bears an illegitimate child. Hawthorne penetratingly rejects the Empersonian optimism of the rigid seventeenth century Puritanism as he dwells upon the consequences of adultery. The lucid story is told in a gripping style to tkae the reader to is touching climax.