This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's p...
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.
It’s mostly the archaic English that turned most modern readers away, I think, but it really is a great book. Read on, maybe you’ll be surprised somehow.
[On a field, sable, the letter A, gules.]
The Scarlet Letter is the masterpiece of the well known romantic novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this book, by describing the tragic loving story between Hester Prynne and Mr.Dimmesdale the writer tried to dig out the human nature in American Puritan soci...
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瘦竹
上海译文出版社2007版
粉核桃
Modern Library2000版
雨过天阴
人民文学出版社2003版
L不用了的账号
人民文学出版社1996版
0 有用 模糊 2012-09-28 14:36:43
“On a field, sable, the letter A, gules.”
0 有用 Crystopia 2011-03-22 22:11:08
超爱Hester和Pearl,不过最后那倒霉牧师残存的勇气还是让我流了几滴泪，但感觉是自私和自我救赎，根本不是爱啊。
0 有用 静卜 2009-05-25 12:55:19
It took him 7 years to reveal the truth, yet it was not love that made him do so, it was shame.
0 有用 pooooll 2019-03-10 13:35:34
emmm……
0 有用 delta 2012-09-24 21:16:18
其实原版没有看太明白。。。。以后在读一遍吧。。
0 有用 Eli 2021-03-30 16:57:43
It’s mostly the archaic English that turned most modern readers away, I think, but it really is a great book. Read on, maybe you’ll be surprised somehow. [On a field, sable, the letter A, gules.]
0 有用 LotusEater 2020-08-23 10:15:27
文笔真的好，但我实在受不了女主角的结局，这个故事看得窝火。
0 有用 pooooll 2019-03-10 13:35:34
emmm……
0 有用 (空地) 2017-10-14 00:16:16
拿到了书签.....今天很屌。看完很释怀。初中毕业自己买的小票已经完全退色 除了红色的章，晚上的归途看到中学喜欢无比的数学老师，两三米的距离没有打招呼，恩 都还好。起码看起来 没有变 吧哈？
0 有用 王珊RP要爆发 2017-05-20 17:54:06
印象最深的是Dimmesdale在the interior of a heart 这一章中内心的自责和纠结，沉重至极。这本书应该可以在不同的年纪读出不同的感觉。