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These days, we tend to think about The Scarlet Letter in relation to high school students struggling with their English papers, but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel ...
Alice Hoffman’s new novel, “The Invisible Hour,” is about a young woman who runs away from a cult, discovers “The Scarlet Letter” in a public library, travels back in time almost 200 ...
The punishment of the scarlet letter is a historical fact; and, apart from the symbol thus ready provided to the author's hand, such a book as The Scarlet Letter would doubtless never have existed.
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
As a former middle schooler who had to read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, I am perplexed, as Mace evidently did not SparkNotes what the book is even roughly about. The eponymous ...
Fields, in February 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne washed his hands of the manuscript that would become his most famous novel. Set in 17th-century New England, The Scarlet Letter follows Hester Prynne ...
“Did Republicans also ban the book ‘The Scarlet Letter?’ Because clearly you haven’t read it,” he mocked. “The A stands for adulterer, not, as I presume you’re using it, a-hol ...
The pair were co-stars in the 1995 movie adaptation of the classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... of boozing during filming” of The Scarlet Letter, resulting in his behaviour becoming ...
And I felt like "The Scarlet Letter" is a really good story with which to examine that. Hawthorne himself wrote the novel at least partially out of guilt because his own ancestor was involved in ...
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel, the Puritan minister’s smoldering ... and their victims 12 years before he wrote “The Scarlet Letter.” In his journal, he described the effigy of ...
These days, we tend to think about The Scarlet Letter in relation to high school students struggling with their English papers, but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel ...