The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864

 

 

To assist you in locating relevant materials in the Algonquin Area Public Library dealing with major literary figures and critical evaluations of their works.

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Critical and Biographical

 

REF 809    NIN              Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC)

                                    v. 2,10,17,23,39  Detroit:Gale

REF 810.9 CON            Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography (CDALB)

                                    v. 1640-1865  Colonization to the American Renaissance.

                                    Detroit:Gale  c1988

REF 810.9 AME American Writers  v. II  New York: Simon & Schuster

                                    c1972 University of Minnesota  p223-46

REF 920.3 DIC              Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) v. IV p424-9

                                    New York:Charles Scribner’s Sons c1931

REF  704.946 COO       Cooper, S.C., An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols.

                                    London:Thames & Hudson c1978

                                   

813      HAW                 Bloom, Harold Edt.  Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. 

(Modern Critical Interpretations) New York : Chelsea House  1986 

                                     

813      HAW                 Gerber, John, Edt.  Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Scarlet                            Letter.  New Jersey : Prentice-Hall  1968

                       

813      HAW                 Bloom, Harold, Edt.  Hester Prynne. (Major Literary Characters)

                                    New York : Chelsea House  1990

 

813      HAW                 Morey, Eileen, Edt.  Readings on the Scarlet Letter.  San Diego,

                                    California : Greenhaven Press  1998                          

 

813      HAW                 Baym, Nina.  The Scarlet Letter : A Reading.   New York:Twayne,

                                    1986

 

813      HAW                 Dibble, Terry J. Cliffs Notes on Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

                                    Lincoln, Nebraska:Cliffs Notes  c1988

 

813      CLA                  Monarch Notes Quick Course Classics of American Literature.

                                    New York:Arco Publishing c1995

 

813      HAW                 Wood, James Playsted.  The Unpardonable Sin : A Life of Nathaniel                              Hawthorne.  New York:Pantheon  1970

 

813      HAW                 Miller, Edwin Haviland.  Salem is my Dwelling Place : a life of

                                    Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Iowa City : University of Iowa Press  1991

 

809      SUT                  Sutherland, John.  Can Jane Eyre be Happy?  New York : Oxford

                                    1997

 

 

 

Multimedia:

 

Audiobook/Cassette/HAW     The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

            Unabridged/Abridged

            Charlotte Hall, Md. : Recorded Books 1981

 

VHS/SCA                                  The Scarlet Letter : A romance.

                                                Alexandria, VA : PBS Video 1979

 

Ebook #8                                 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Internet sites:

 

http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit    The Internet Public Library

                                                Online Literary Criticism Collection