Readable Classics gently edits great works of literature, retaining the original authors’ voices, to provide study aids for students and make the classics more accessible to modern readers.
Puritan Boston, 1600’s -- Beautiful, defiant Hester Prynne commits adultery, refuses to name the father of her illegitimate child, and is condemned to wear a scarlet ‘A’ on her breast for the rest of her life. She becomes the first true heroine of American fiction.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 masterpiece was the first American novel to explore the moral struggle with sin, guilt, and pride; the conflict between the heart and the mind; and the deadly consequences of not being able to forgive ourselves and others.
