Oxford Bookworms 4. The Scarlett Letter MP3 Pack

Resumen del libro

Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English.
The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'.
In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife.
A child born outside marriage was a child of sin.Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life.
How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne.And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?

Biografía del autor

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Salem, Massachusetts, 1804-Plymouth, 1864) escribió alegorías, de las que, sorprendentemente, llegaría a arrepentirse. Fue amigo de Herman Melville, quien le dedicó Moby Dick. Fue un recluso voluntario, por una especie de malentendido con las puertas. Terminó sus días como Hölderlin, escribiendo encerrado en una torre. Poe, que no era de halago fácil, dijo de él: Lo considero uno de los pocos hombres de genio indiscutible que ha llegado a dar nuestro país . Para el editor Duy ckinck era como si ese genio, sin deudas respecto al pasado o a contemporáneos extranjeros , hubiera caído del cielo.