The preface to The Scarlet Letter sets the atmosphere of the story and connects the present with the past. Hawthorne's description of the Salem port of the ...

The author begs leave to say, that he has carefully read over the introductory pages, with a purpose to alter or expunge whatever might be found amiss.

While working at the customhouse, surrounded by uninspiring men, the narrator finds himself unable to write. When a new president is elected, he loses his ...

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. M. uch to the author's surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds ...

Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter with a long introductory essay that generally functions as a preface but, more specifically, accomplishes four significant ...

24 сент. 1999 г. · The person who attacked Hawthorne for the sketch is considered to be Whig political leader Charles Wentworth Upham. Upham wrote some letters to ...

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6 апр. 2017 г. · But Hawthorne was anxious that in his distance from his utopian forebears he had become a nullity; in the Preface to The Scarlet Letter, he ...

The narrator wonders whether his Puritan ancestors would scoff at him for wanting to do something as frivolous as writing a book to meditate on human nature.

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