Study Guide: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as sin, punishment, and forgiveness; the self in society and in private; gender norms and relationships between men and women; and the weight of the past. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.
Set in the 1600s in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, this classic of the American Romantic era tells the story of Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman who had an affair, gave birth to a daughter, and is thus sentenced to wear a scarlet letter “A” for adultery. The novel suggests that it is partly because she has “sinned” that Hester has such a keen sense of compassion; her personal experience of guilt and sadness leads her to empathize where others might condemn.
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The religious turn to their faith to find meaning. But what about the many people who lead secular lives and are also hungry for meaning? What guides, what approaches are available to them? Distinguished philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly explain that a secular life charged with meaning is indeed within reach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book that refreshes the classics
- De Tod en 06-14-11
De: Hubert Dreyfus, y otros
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The Enneagram
- A Christian Perspective
- De: Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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This runaway best seller shows both the basic logic of the Enneagram and its harmony with the core truths of Christian thought from the time of the early Church forward. Experience author Richard Rohr's expertise and advanced thought on the subject, easily laid out for all audiences.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not truly a Christian view
- De Ben en 07-27-21
De: Richard Rohr, y otros
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The God Who Weeps
- How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
- De: Terryl Givens, Fiona Givens
- Narrado por: Fiona Givens
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 711
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"Whether by design or by chance," Terryl and Fiona Givens write, "we find ourselves in a universe filled with mystery. We encounter appealing arguments for a Divinity that is a childish projection, for prophets as scheming or deluded imposters, and for scripture as so much fabulous fiction. But there is also compelling evidence that a glorious Divinity presides over the cosmos, that His angels are strangers we have entertained unawares, and that His word and will are made manifest through a sacred canon that is never definitively closed."
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5 out of 5 stars
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So engaging that I listened to it twice
- De Douglas en 01-02-14
De: Terryl Givens, y otros
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Philosopher of the Heart
- The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
- De: Clare Carlisle
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence - how to be a human being in the world? - while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fatally flawed
- De Citizen M en 02-26-23
De: Clare Carlisle
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A Wicked Company
- The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
- De: Philipp Blom
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach’s Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach’s house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In A Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes of this exceptional group of friends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book on Radical Enlightenment
- De EJJ en 02-15-15
De: Philipp Blom
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Insurrection
- To Believe is Human. To Doubt, Divine.
- De: Peter Rollins
- Narrado por: Joshua Swanson
- Duración: 4 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
In this incendiary new work, the controversial author and speaker Peter Rollins proclaims that the Christian faith is not primarily concerned with questions regarding life after death but with the possibility of life before death. In order to unearth this truth, Rollins prescribes a radical and wholesale critique of contemporary Christianity that he calls pyro-theology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The deconstructed cliff
- De ND4SP33D en 09-22-16
De: Peter Rollins
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Things Worth Dying For
- Thoughts on a Life Worth Living
- De: Charles J. Chaput
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 116
With a balance of wisdom, candor, and scholarly rigor, the beloved archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, traces the human experience from ancient times to today to find threads of connection in our yearning for God, love, honor, beauty, truth, and immortality. He looks at our modern appetite for consumption and individualism and offers a penetrating analysis of how we got here and how we can look to our roots and our faith to find purpose each day amid the noise of competing desires.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Low score for modernism
- De Joey en 05-17-21
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The Forgotten Language
- An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
- De: Erich Fromm
- Narrado por: Kevin Young
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In this study, Fromm argues that man needs to analyze his unconscious thoughts, his dreams, and his conscious fantasies, as they reflect a universal and symbolic representation of himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fromm at full steam
- De Paul en 02-15-16
De: Erich Fromm
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: James Armstrong
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A personal and opinionated book on the Canon
- De Steffen en 07-23-12
De: Harold Bloom
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The Great Gatsby
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Jake Gyllenhaal
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23,348
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20,546
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20,510
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Beautiful, and Exquisitely Textured
- De Darwin8u en 04-09-13
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Religion for Atheists
- A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 310
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 267
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 263
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing, Erroneous, Implausible
- De Douglas C. Bates en 11-02-12
De: Alain de Botton
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The Holy Longing
- The Search for a Christian Spirituality
- De: Ronald Rolheiser
- Narrado por: Bill Loran
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Listeners will be fully engaged in a unique and altogether fascinating discussion of Christian spirituality. Rolheiser seeks to reconcile the rift between a smorgasbord of spiritual voices and an authentic Christian discipleship by the use of anecdotes, personal examples and a wide range of literary and cultural references. His starting point is the desire within us that longs irresistibly for fulfillment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great content
- De Allison Winter en 11-07-23
De: Ronald Rolheiser
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Bolder even than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
- De Darwin8u en 02-11-18
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Strangers in a Strange Land
- Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
- De: Charles J. Chaput
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 363
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 312
From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar, comes Strangers in a Strange Land, a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholicism and Christianity in the United States. America today is different in kind, not just in degree, from the past. And this new reality is unlikely to be reversed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De CFletcher en 07-04-17
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Stay
- A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
- De: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Narrado por: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative but oddly dispassionate
- De Scott en 01-07-14
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Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
- De: Richard Holloway
- Narrado por: Richard Holloway
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 50
Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Effortlessly profound
- De Consi en 09-28-21
De: Richard Holloway
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn
- A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen
- De: Susan Bordo
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat
- Duración: 12 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 371
Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne’s life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is Anne so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? What did she really look like? Was she the flaxen-haired martyr of Romantic paintings or the raven-haired seductress of twenty-first-century portrayals? (Answer: Neither.) And perhaps the most provocative questions concern Anne’s death more than her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most Enjoyable Biography--Win!
- De Roswatheist en 03-29-14
De: Susan Bordo