The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: A Novel and Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition)
A Puritan Tale of Sin, Shame, Redemption, and Stage AdaptationBy Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Edgar Smith
Length15h 25m
About this audiobook
This illustrated pairing places Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring romance of Puritan New England beside James Edgar Smith's dramatic adaptation, inviting readers to consider how guilt, punishment, secrecy, and moral judgment change across forms. The novel's symbolic density, psychological narration, and historical atmosphere are answered by the play's concentrated dialogue, visible action, and theatrical immediacy. Hester Prynne's scarlet emblem remains the volume's central image, while the juxtaposition illuminates the tensions among private conscience, public authority, gender, and communal memory. Hawthorne's fiction, shaped by nineteenth-century American romance and an ambivalent inheritance of New England Puritanism, probes the ethical costs of inherited social codes. Smith's adaptation participates in the long afterlife of canonical literature on the stage, translating a complex narrative voice into performance, gesture, and encounter. Together, the two texts show how adaptation is not mere reduction but critical interpretation: each medium foregrounds different dimensions of the same cultural conflict and broadens the work's historical resonance. Ideal for students, teachers, and general readers, this edition offers a valuable comparative reading experience. Its illustrations and dual forms encourage close attention to symbolism, characterization, and dramatic structure, while fostering a rich dialogue between prose fiction and theatre. Readers will find in one volume both a foundational American novel and a compelling meditation on its transformation.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length15 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE CONFIDENCE-MAN (Modern Classics Series) (Annotated)
2The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: A Novel and Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition)
3Introduction
4Biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop
5I.
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6II.
7III.
8IV.
9V.
10Novel
11The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850)
12THE CUSTOM-HOUSE INTRODUCTORY TO “THE SCARLET LETTER”
13I. THE PRISON DOOR
14II. THE MARKETPLACE
15III. THE RECOGNITION
16IV. THE INTERVIEW
17V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
18VI. PEARL
19VII. THE GOVERNOR’S HALL
20VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
21IX. THE LEECH
22X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
23XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
24XII. THE MINISTER’S VIGIL
25XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
26XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
27XV. HESTER AND PEARL
28XVI. A FOREST WALK
29XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
30XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
31XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
32XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
33XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
34XXII. THE PROCESSION
35XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
36XXIV. CONCLUSION
37Adaptation of The Scarlet Letter:
38A Scarlet Stigma - A Play in Four Acts (1899)
39PERSONS REPRESENTED
40THE SCARLET STIGMA
41Act I.
42Scene I.
43Scene II.
44Scene III.
45Act II.
46Scene I.
47Scene II.
48Scene III.
49Act III.
50Scene I.
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