The catalog / Grades 11 and 12
The Scarlet Letter
Cover mockup.
The Scarlet Letter
In Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne stands on the scaffold with a scarlet A on her breast and will not name the father of her child.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 9–12
- First published
- 1850
- This edition
- Complete, with Hawthorne’s introductory sketch, “The Custom-House.”
- Pages
- 226
- Prompts
- 25, one at the close of each chapter
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Early on, Hawthorne says an author may speak of himself and still “keep the inmost Me behind its veil.” Then he imagines his Puritan forefathers scorning him as “A writer of story-books!” and tells how the old letter, laid on his breast, seemed to burn. Has he stayed within his own limits? Bracket the two or three places where the veil seems thinnest.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages226
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts25, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio