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A Study In Scarlet
Contributor(s): Doyle, Arthur Conan (Author)

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 ISBN: 1495384624     ISBN-13: 9781495384622
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $10.69  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1887
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 8-11
Grade Level: 3-6
Lexile Measure: 1070(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.17" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.27 lbs) 84 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 76088
Reading Level: 7.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:
The story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. A man in the crowd tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery. Hester's husband, a scholar much older than she is, sent her ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston. The consensus is that he has been lost at sea. While waiting for her husband, Hester has apparently had an affair, as she has given birth to a child. She will not reveal her lover's identity, however, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. On this day Hester is led to the town scaffold and harangued by the town fathers, but she again refuses to identify her child's father.
 
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