Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804, published The Scarlet Letter in1850. Since it was first published , The Scarlet Letter has never been out of print,nor out of favor with the literary critics. It is inevitably included in listings of the five or ten greatest American novels. Considered to be the best of Nathaniel Hawthornes writings, it may also be the most typical. The Scarlet Letter is Hawthornes masterpiece and his most profound exploration of sin, alienation, and spiritual regeneration.(1
Buckner) In form it is a nearly perfect example of the static, pictorial design that Hawthornes dreamvision of the world demanded, given texture and solidity by the detailed representation of the Puritan-Ne
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