The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where he wrote the bulk of his masterful tales of American colonial history. His career as a novelist began with The Scarlet Letter (1850) and also includes The house of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. Tom Perotta is the author of two short story collections and six novels, including Election, Little Children, and The Abstinence Teacher. His most recent novel, The Leftovers, has been adapted for television by HBO. Robert Milder is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Reimagining Thoreau, Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine, and Hawthorne's Habitations: A Literary Life.
"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley
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