The Scarlet Letter
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel set in the Puritan colony of Boston in the 17th century. Hester Prynne is made to wear a scarlet letter A after she gives birth to a daughter, Pearl, and refuses to name the father. As she raises Pearl on the edge of the community, her husband, who has arrived under a false name, sets out to discover the father's identity, while the respected young minister Arthur Dimmesdale struggles with a secret of his own.
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