scarlet letter

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      27 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 scarlet letter a scarlet letter A formerly worn by a person convicted of adultery Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Scarlet Letter.(News)

Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  February 17, 2005 ;     88 words ......not too late to get your copy of The Scarlet Letter, for just pounds 3. Visit the Evening Mail reception in Weaman Street and buy a...tomorrow. If you get your copy of the Evening Mail delivered as a 'Birmingham's Best' reader...

Scholar finds secret influence on 'The Scarlet Letter'

AP Worldstream;  February 6, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Pennsylvania Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was the furthest thing from Richard...stories from the period, in creating "The Scarlet Letter." What's more, Kopley also thinks he...in "Brittany" and passages in "The Scarlet Letter." At the end of "Brittany," Kopley...

Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 15 - 20

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ......Nathaniel Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 15 - 20 Chapter XV: "Hester...letter "A" very much like her mother's scarlet letter. For the rest of the day and part of...Pearl concerning the meaning of the scarlet letter. The child also asks why the minister...

'Scarlet Letter' Sets Auction Record

AP Online;  December 17, 2004 ;     400 words ......copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was auctioned Thursday for $545,100...as the oldest existing copy of "The Scarlet Letter." The rare manuscript and the handwritten...directs the society's museum. "The Scarlet Letter" tells the tale of Hester Prynne, who...

The bureaucratic origins of The Scarlet Letter.(Critical Essay)

Studies in American Fiction;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......individualism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a novel preoccupied with the sorts...Hawthorne relates how he found the Scarlet Letter while poking and burrowing into the...lightheartedly equating the narrative of The Scarlet Letter with the forgotten paperwork of Salem...

Oldest 'Scarlet Letter' brings record price

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 26, 2004 ;     382 words ......copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was auctioned for $545,100, a record...as the oldest existing copy of "The Scarlet Letter." The rare manuscript and the handwritten...directs the society's museum. "The Scarlet Letter" tells the tale of Hester Prynne, who...

`Scarlet Letter' manuscript brings record price of $545,100 at auction

AP Worldstream;  December 17, 2004 ;     409 words ......copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was auctioned Thursday for $545,100...as the oldest existing copy of "The Scarlet Letter." The rare manuscript and the handwritten...directs the society's museum. "The Scarlet Letter" tells the tale of Hester Prynne, who...

Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 5 - 9

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ......Nathaniel Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 5 - 9 Chapter V: "Hester...path from town. Catching sight of the scarlet letter, they fearfully run away. Meanwhile...coarse material, which causes the scarlet letter to blaze out at the world in contrast...

Florida's hated Scarlet Letter Law in the dock as women protest

Scotland on Sunday;  March 2, 2003 ;     556 words ......been shocked by Florida's so- called 'Scarlet Letter Law'. Slipped through the state senate...from the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter. Set in the 1660s, it tells of a married...provision is a 21st-century sequel to The Scarlet Letter," says Mariann Meier Wang, a ...

Fables and Gables; Tracing Hawthorne's `Scarlet Letter' and Other Sites

The Washington Post;  September 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ......handed over his unfinished copy of "The Scarlet Letter" in a cold stairway leading from his...17th century is the setting of "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne wrote the story in 1849...is a good choice. Readers of "The Scarlet Letter" will recognize this ancient building...

DOVE AUDIO ANNOUNCES ITS NEWEST MOVIE TIE-IN - THE SCARLET LETTER

PR Newswire;  September 11, 1995 ;     239 words ......of the audio edition of The Scarlet Letter, the American classic by Nathaniel...Hawthorne. The Dove audio of The Scarlet Letter will be released simultaneously...release its own production of The Scarlet Letter. The Scarlet Letter can be...

Scarlet Letter, The

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      74 words ...00-00-0000 Scarlet Letter, The Scarlet Letter, The A novel (1850) by Nathaniel HAWTHORNE. Set in seventeenth-centu...expiation, it is required reading in many high schools. The scarlet letter of the title is a large red A, which Hester wears on her...

The Scarlet Letter on Film: Ninety Years of Revisioning

Literature/Film Quarterly;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Roland Joff's filmed version of The Scarlet Letter, starring Demi Moore, received nearly...makeover" (44). In other words, the 1995 Scarlet Letter is glitz rather than substance. In...concluded that "The film version of The Scarlet Letter is a perfect Hollywood amorality tale...

Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 1 - 4

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ......Nathaniel Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 1 - 4 Chapter I: "The Prison-Do...main female character who wears the scarlet letter. The setting is Puritan Boston, near...American Puritanism. The title, The Scarlet Letter, has a symbolic word in it. Thus it...