"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...

Contains twelve selections by turn-of-the-century American author Jack London, including the novel "The Call of the Wild"; the short story collection "The Son of the Wolf"; and two additional tales; and includes an essay about London by Carl Sandburg.