Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Introduced by Harold Bloom ISBN: 978-1-59853-112-1 272 pp. / $7.95 Printed on high-quality acid-free paper SAVE 20% and get FREE Shipping anywhere in the U.S. when you order from the LOA Web Store! Web Store Price: $6.36

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Set within the richly imagined confines of Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a strict religious community. The transgression of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the innate lawlessness of their illegitimate child, Pearl, and the torturous jealousy of the husband Roger Chillingworth trigger a provocative drama of sin and suffering, repentance and revenge. “Beautiful, admirable, extraordinary... it has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art.”—Henry James

Harold Bloom is the author of some thirty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and The Western Canon, and has been the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and is a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.