The Scarlet Letter (1850)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Scarlet_Letter_(1850)
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:novel
gptkbp:adaptation gptkb:The_Scarlet_Letter_(1926_film)
gptkb:The_Scarlet_Letter_(1934_film)
gptkb:The_Scarlet_Letter_(1995_film)
opera by Margaret Garwood
gptkbp:author gptkb:Nathaniel_Hawthorne
gptkbp:awarded included in Time's 100 Best English-language Novels
gptkbp:considers classic of American literature
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:coverArtist gptkb:Mary_Hallock_Foote
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Sophia_Hawthorne
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables
gptkbp:genre historical fiction
gptkbp:hasPreface gptkb:The_Custom-House
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Scarlet Letter (1850)
gptkbp:illustrator gptkb:Mary_Hallock_Foote
gptkbp:influenced American literature
gptkbp:ISBN 978-0-14-243726-1
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:literaryPeriod gptkb:Romanticism
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Pearl
gptkb:Arthur_Dimmesdale
gptkb:Hester_Prynne
gptkb:Roger_Chillingworth
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:print
gptkbp:notableQuote On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.
gptkbp:pages 272
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Fanshawe
gptkbp:publicationDate 1850
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Ticknor,_Reed_&_Fields
gptkbp:releaseDate gptkb:Boston
gptkbp:setting 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts
gptkbp:subject single
redemption
guilt
adultery
gptkbp:symbol rosebush
scaffold
scarlet letter 'A'
gptkbp:theme gptkb:identity
revenge
hypocrisy
legalism
public shaming
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Hester_Prynne
gptkb:Roger_Chillingworth
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6