Red Letters (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: (USA) Hawthorne
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The Scarlet Letter was included in the "List of Literary Works to Enhance Artistic Standards" by Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate and American writer. In his book Books and You, British novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham introduced what he considered true literary masterpieces, which included The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne was a prominent representative of late 19th-century American Romanticism 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 the novel Moby-Dick, called Hawthorne equal to Shakespeare of England. The renowned novelist of the late 19th century, Henry James, praised Hawthorne by saying, "His works will live for generations, and his name will be celebrated for eternity."