She resists all attempts of the 17th century boston clergy to make her reveal the name of her childs father while she struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The stranger tells him that hester refuses to reveal her fellow sinner. This new audio edition, authorized by the fitzgerald estate, is narrated by oscarnominated actor jake gyllenhaal brokeback mountain. The scarlet letter, nathaniel hawthorne s, magnum opus, tells the story of hester prynne, who gives birth two years after separation from her husband and is condemned to wear the scarlet letter a on her breast as punishment for her adultery. The scarlet letter audiobook by nathaniel hawthorne. Chapter 3 great expectations audiobook 3 59 duration. Oh yea thank you very much for this audiobook, im a slow reader and this helps me keep a pace.
Its another day melanies funeral, in fact, and scarlett is determined to win back rhett whos spending a lot of time with belle watling. See the legal notice if you plan to use these pages in any way other than as you would a ed book from a library. Governor bellingham, reverend wilson, and reverend dimmesdale. The scarlet letter chapter 3 the recognition youtube. As punishment, she has been sentenced to three hours on the scaffold and a lifetime of wearing the scarlet letter on her chest. The scarlet letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by nathaniel hawthorne. First, she goes to tara and spats with sue ellen over tara. Nathaniel hawthornes 1850 historical novel the scarlet letter explores guilt. Turn on captions to read along with subtitles in english. Chapter 3 the scarlet letter audiobook 324 youtube. She is married, but was sent ahead of her husband to massachusetts, and has been there alone for two years. The narrator then introduces us to the town fathers who sit in judgment of hester. Then she goes to charleston, presenting herself to rhetts mother and friends, to rhetts dismay. Plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis.
By the indians side, and evidently sustaining a companionship with him, stood a. As punishment, she has been sentenced to three hours on the scaffold and a lifetime of. In this chapter, hester and three year old pearl trek to the governors hall in order to deliver gloves hester made for him, but also for hester to plead. Set in puritan massachusetts bay colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of hester prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. With joanne whalley, timothy dalton, annabeth gish, julie harris. We checked our ocr against the norton critical edition text. I put it down after reading about 30 pages because the old english writing was terrible to weed through. A romance is a work of historical fiction by american author nathaniel hawthorne, published in 1850.