Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"The Scarlett Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New Enland. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passioin that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected public figure who is inwardly tormented by long-hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger...
Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"'The oldest and strangest emotion of mankind is fear.' So wrote horror master H.P. Lovecraft in his landmark essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature, ' a survey that for nearly a century has served as a required reading list for tales of the supernatural. H.P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories collects in one volume more than thirty stories that Lovecraft singled out in his essay as the best horror tales of all time"--Front jacket cover....