The Scarlet Letter: Edgar Poe and Frances Osgood Edition and Study Guide
About this ebook
For discerning educators and students:
Analysis of each chapter;
Multiple questions for each chapter;
Hawthorne biography by Henry James;
List of the works of Hawthorne;
Detail on initial printings of TSL;
Main character comparisons to real-life authors and Puritans; and
Summary of TSL.
Andrew Barger is the author of the academic book: The Affair of Edgar Poe and Frances Osgood in The Scarlet Letter. Andrew is an attorney and Poe scholar who uncovered that Hawthorne placed the rumored affair of Poe and Osgood in TSL. He is a member of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, Edgar Allan Poe Society, and the Poe Society of Baltimore. Visit AndrewBarger.com
Table of Contents
Hacking Hawthorne by Andrew Barger
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction—The Custom House
Analysis + Student Questions
I. The Prison-Door
Analysis + Student Questions
II. The Market-Place
Analysis + Student Questions
III. The Recognition
Analysis + Student Questions
IV. The Interview
Analysis + Student Questions
V. Hester at Her Needle
Analysis + Student Questions
VI. Pearl
Analysis + Student Questions
VII. The Governor’s Hall
Analysis + Student Questions
VIII. The Elf-Child and the Minister
Analysis + Student Questions
IX. The Leech
Analysis + Student Questions
X. The Leech and His Patient
Analysis + Student Questions
XI. The Interior of a Heart
Analysis + Student Questions
XII. The Minister’s Vigil
Analysis + Student Questions
XIII. Another View of Hester
Analysis + Student Questions
XIV. Hester and the Physician
Analysis + Student Questions
XV. Hester and Pearl
Analysis + Student Questions
XVI. A Forest Walk
Analysis + Student Questions
XVII. The Pastor and His Parishioner
Analysis + Student Questions
XVIII. A Flood of Sunshine
Analysis + Student Questions
XIX. The Child at the Brook-Side
Analysis + Student Questions
XX. The Minister in a Maze
Analysis + Student Questions
XXI. The New England Holiday
Analysis + Student Questions
XXII. The Procession
Analysis + Student Questions
XXIII. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
Analysis + Student Questions
XXIV. Conclusion
Analysis + Student Questions
Appendices
Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography - Henry James
Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Initial Printings of The Scarlet Letter
Main Characters Compared
Short Summary of The Scarlet Letter
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About the author
Website: AndrewBarger.com
Andrew on X: @DangerousLore
Blog: andrewbarger.com/blog
Andrew Barger is an attorney, Edgar Allan Poe apologist and a Nathaniel Hawthorne deconstructionist. He uncovered that Nathaniel Hawthorne incorporated the aftermath of the rumored affair between Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Osgood in The Scarlet Letter.
To prove this, Andrew deconstructed Hawthorne’s most famous novel, paragraph by paragraph. When finished, Andrew had over 500 footnotes showing the methods of Hawthorne and how Poe is depicted as Minister Dimmesdale and Osgood is portrayed as Hester Prynne. The Affair of Edgar Poe and Frances Osgood in The Scarlet Letter is the resulting academic book. For educators and students looking for an entirely new perspective on the novel, The Scarlet Letter: Edgar Poe and Frances Osgood Edition + Study Guide was also published.
Andrew is the author of The Divine Dantes Trilogy. He also edited and annotated several award-winning anthologies of the best Gothic stories of the 19th century.
