Product Overview
This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet LetterHawthornes most widely read novelas well as to the five short prose worksMrs. Hutchinson, Endicott and the Red Cross, Young Goodman Brown, The Ministers Black Veil, and The Birth-markthat closely relate to the 1850 novel.
This Second Norton Critical Edition also includes:Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person.
Key passages from Hawthornes notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writings
Seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan, and John F. Birk.
A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.
