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    The Scarlet Letter
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    The Scarlet Letter

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    Pretty goodI got the mass market paperback and it can exactly as pictures. Near perfect condition, there was some kind of marking on the front. Really great price for what it's worth. Came quickly. Words are kinda small. 4MY FAVORITE CLASSIC!!!Hester Prynne is my favorite literary heroine!I know that s not how others may characterize her but all I saw was a woman of immense internal strength in the face of shame and suffering.I found myself admiring her and suffering alongside this brave and beautiful woman.I never had the chance to read this in high school and I m so glad I waited. Any book assigned as a school project made me approach it as a prison meal... but this time I was able to approach it as a 5 star banquet spread.I took my time savoring the archaic language and the poetic phraseology. I lingered as Hester was forced to bear the shame of youth and religiosity. I tried to absorb the despair and find the strength that she was forced to find and soon I learned to love her as though I had known her and her agony personally.Nathanial Hawthorne has brilliantly critiqued the human condition and masterfully described the burden of shame, hypocrisy, vengeance and triumph.This book is one for the ages!A must buy if ever there was one. 5Better for an older audienceI read The Scarlet Letter in high school and I thought it was one of he driest reads I've ever had to muddle through. Although, now that I'm older with adult children, I decided to read it again. This time it was much better and I was able to sympathize with Hester and admire her attitude. She was a strong woman! Being the second time I've read this book, I knew the characters and their roles, and I was carefully paying attention to the key players. I was not pleased with one certain male and thought he was a sniveling idiot with no backbone.I'm glad I gave this book a second chance. Sometimes, the classics we are forced to read in school need life experience to appreciate what the message the author was trying to convey. For me, this was one of those classics. 4This is a great book. I tried to read The Scarlet Letter ...This is a great book. I tried to read The Scarlet Letter years ago. I put it down after reading about 30 pages because the old English writing was terrible to weed through. This NO FEAR series is wonderful. The left hand side of the book has the original version with the right hand side of the page written in today's language, making it easy to understand. Very nicely done! 5Passions rage, morality winsA masterpiece of 19th century American literature, and a glimpse into the lives of the early Puritans (Boston, 1660s).The prologue, leading to the tale of the discovery of the story (the Scarlet Letter is presented as a story-within-a-story) is long and leaves the reader impatient. Since it pertains to a different location and time from the main story, it is not quite clear how it enhances the tale.The depictions of human feelings are exquisitely detailed, which is fairly remarkable because they are almost invariably gloomy feelings of guilt and shame. The pace, very slow at first, picks up towards the dramatic denouement, followed by a rather unsatisfactory conclusion. One wishes that the author would have thumbed his nose at the Puritans and allowed Hester Prynne a happy life ever after, but Hawthorne does not violate the moral conventions of the age and the conclusion would therefore have satisfied the most moralistic readers. No happy ending here, except for the one innocent character, so everyone who sinned paid the price, amen.Seen in the light of the moral tradition in which the novel is set, and the barely less strict society in which it was written, the quality of the writing serves the purpose of moral edification beautifully. The long sentence, with their complex embedded clauses and dated vocabulary, is sometimes hard to follow, but always limpid once parsed. In that sense it is reminiscent of another moral tale of the age, Melville's Moby Dick, minus the see and with a different capital sin involved.Overall, this is one of the canons of literature that should be part of the weel-educated reader's collection. 4DO NOT BUY ! ! !Wish I could give it less than 1 star. I should have ready the reviews, but one would presume a book to be what it says, the book, in it's entirety. Shocked to find this was only the first half the book and ends mid sentence. After seeing others who already knew this I will be much more diligent in reading reviews before a purchase. Why is this still for sale? Why has it not been pulled? 1Terrible VersionDo yourself a favor, and do NOT buy the American Renaissance version of this book. Like others have said, this is poorly formatted with wide pages and small type. On top of that, it begins at chapter 1 and does not include The Custom House introduction like any version of The Scarlet Letter should. And then to top it off, the book started falling apart at the binding as soon as I opened it. Terrible copy. I will not purchase this brand again. 1A Tough Yet Rewarding ReadThe Scarlet Letter is an extremely insightful story relating the lives of 17th-century Bostonian Puritans. After Hester Prynne commits adultery, she is forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her breast. Hester also refuses to name the man with whom she had an affair with. The Scarlet Letter narrates the story of the two criminals as they live out their lives in guilt, shame, and fear.The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, so the language can be extremely difficult to comprehend. The length and punctuation of the sentences also make it a tough read. Moreover, the plot is stagnant most of the time. Why go through the struggle just to read a famous, yet unpopular, piece of literature? Since The Scarlet Letter s publication, readers have acknowledged that Nathaniel Hawthorne has crafted a masterpiece with essential life lessons such as keeping the truth out in the open. On top of that, Hawthorne had a deep understanding of Puritan living, and his knowledge flows out throughout The Scarlet Letter. The story will enhance your understanding of life, literature, and love. I highly recommend The Scarlet Letter. 4Maybe not as terrible as people say.[Spoiler warning]I've heard that Hawthorne's bibliography "should all be erased from existence"* and "makes kids hate reading,"* but The Scarlet Letter may be the exception.While I typically don't like to read and was assigned this as a reading assignment in school, this book managed to make me want to read it. While of course, just like many classics, The Scarlet Letter doesn't have the flashy action and intriguing mystery that modern readers have come to expect, it does have round and dynamic characters, that learn and grow as the story continues. Hester grows from a stubborn young woman into a stubborn young woman who has learned to overcome the labels that society had given her.The characters also react like human beings, unlike the lifeless husks of some classics. One example of realistic Character actions was when Pearl is so disgusted that Dimmesdale kisses her that she immediately runs to wash it off in the creek, another is when Hester screams at the Governor when he tries to take Pearl away from her.Overall, I give this book an [A]. =D*See The Adventure Zone. Episode 65. [Warning: Contains profanity] 4GoodI heard so many times that this book is incredibly boring, but I decided to give it a chance and it actually isn t that bad. It s the story of Hester Prynne, who has an affair and gets pregnant and the way that the Puritan community she lives in reacts to that. She is forced to wear a scarlet A on her dress so nobody ever forgets that she s a sinner.It s always a bit strange reading books like these in the 21st century. On one hand, I understand that it was a different time and people had different values and I don t think we should pretend history was any better than it actually was. On the other hand, it makes me so mad when I think of the horrible way women used to be treated and the fact that there are still some places in the world where a woman like Hester would be punished even worse than she was in this book.It s a short book, though it drags in some places because Hawthorne loves unnecessary details. But he s very good at making you understand exactly what the characters are feeling. The book is full of his observations about human nature and I d say it s worth reading because of that even if you have no interest in the plot. 4
    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    4.1
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