LEADER 01448ojm 2200313z- 450 001 9910148874403321 005 20230913112557.0 010 $a0-00-721849-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000924007 035 $a(BIP)014060412 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000924007 100 $a20231107c2005uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aScarlet Letter 210 $cHarperCollins UK 330 8 $a'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.'A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent. 517 $aScarlet Letter, The 610 $aBoston (mass.) 610 $aClergy 610 $aMarried people 610 $aAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author) 610 $aFiction 676 $a813/.3 700 $aHawthorne$b Nathaniel.$0192202 702 $aMcGovern$b Elizabeth$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910148874403321 996 $aScarlet letter$917652 997 $aUNINA