The Scarlet Letter and other Hawthorne works...
This powerful multimedia tool offers students and scholars a vast array of information and resources to analyze, interpret, and better appreciate Hawthorne’s literary masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, and his most popular short stories, including "Rappaccini’s Daughter," "Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister’s Black Veil," "Ethan Brand," "Roger Malvin’s Burial," and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux."
Featuring:
• a program overview
• complete texts of The Scarlet Letter and six short stories, unabridged and fully searchable by phrase or word
• hyperlinks that allow users to gloss thousands of words and phrases to learn definitions, etymologies, geographical locations, and the meanings of puns and allusions
• analyses by Professor Larry Reynolds, President of the Hawthorne Society; leading Hawthorne scholar Millicent Bell; and Professor Brenda Wineapple, Hawthorne biographer
• special video tutorials and text segments on Hawthorne’s private and public life: his marriage, careers, politics, religious views (Puritanism and anti-Puritanism), and associations with Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, James Fields, and Franklin Pierce
• annotated bibliography of widely available texts, including the Harold Bloom scholarly essay series
• on-screen dictionary; Internet connection; full print capabilities
The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.