The Scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; retold by John Escott ; illustrated by Thomas Sperling.
By: Escott, John [author.].
Contributor(s): Sperling, Thomas [illustrator.].
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TextSeries: Oxford bookworms libraryStage 4Classics: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2008]Edition: Simplified edition.Description: 88 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780194791830 .Subject(s): High interest-low vocabulary books | Readers (Adult) | Readers for new literates | Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Fiction | Women -- Massachusetts -- Fiction | Adultery -- Fiction | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | Illegitimate children -- Fiction | Women immigrants -- Fiction | Married women -- Fiction | Revenge -- Fiction | Clergy -- Fiction | Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- FictionDDC classification: 428.6 JOH Summary: "Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover -- the father of her child?"--Back cover.
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"First published in Oxford Bookworms in 2002" --Back of title page.
"Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover -- the father of her child?"--Back cover.
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