The Scarlet Letter

This is the extended annotated edition including a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, two detailed literary reviews, as well as an introductory to the book written by George Parsons Lathrop. Like all of Hawthorne's novels, "The Scarlet Letter" has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story. Its great dramatic force depends entirely on the mental states of the actors and their relations to one another, —relations of conscienc...