Product Review
This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet LetterۥHawthorne€s most widely read novelۥas well as to the five short prose works€•€œMrs. Hutchinson,€ €œEndicott and the Red Cross,€ €œYoung Goodman Brown,€ €œThe Minister€s Black Veil,€ and €œThe Birth-mark€Âۥthat 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 Hawthorne€s 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.
