Celebrated Translations -- The Scarlet Letter (Color Illustrations Edition) (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA), translated by Yao Naiqiang
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: "The Scarlet Letter" was included in the list of literary works to improve artistic skills by Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate and American writer. English novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham introduced in his book "Of Human Bondage" the literary works he considered true masterpieces, which included "The Scarlet Letter." Hawthorne was a prominent representative of late 19th-century Romanticism in America and the pioneer of Romantic novels in American literary history. His literary works and artistic achievements had a profound influence on a group of highly accomplished American writers such as Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, earning him the title of "the writer of writers." Hawthorne was highly regarded by his contemporaries and later generations of writers. Herman Melville, the author of "Moby-Dick," called Hawthorne equal to Shakespeare of England. The renowned novelist of the late 19th century, Henry James, praised Hawthorne, saying his works would be passed down through generations...his name would live forever."