The Scarlet Letter (Canon Classics Worldview Edition) Paperback - 2019
by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Douglas Wilson
About this book
The Scarlett Letter was one of the first mass-produced novels in the United States, prior printing of books generally done by hand. The 2,500 copies first printed sold out in days, and the mass-production of books opened up conversation about books and authors to a wider-audience on a national level. The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the appearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley). Although an instant best-seller, the books sales over fourteen years only brought the author $1500.
First Edition Identification
First edition published by Ticknor, Reeds and Fields, in Boston 1850. Main first edition marker is "reduplicate" instead of "repudiate" on page 21 Four page publisher's adverts at front dated March 1, 1850 and preceding the free end paper. The brown T-cloth favored by Ticknor & Fields is famous for becoming brittle with age, and cracking or fraying at the spine tips. First editions can run upwards of $20,000.
The second edition adds a preface and has a Metcalf imprint on verso of title-page. The third printing has the same preface but has a Hobart & Robbins imprint on verso of title-page.
Details
- Title The Scarlet Letter (Canon Classics Worldview Edition)
- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Douglas Wilson
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 270
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Canon Press
- Date 2019-12-01
- ISBN 9781591281986 / 1591281989
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 13 to 18 years
- Grade levels 8 - 13
- Reading level 410
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Puritans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019053177
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.3
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