The Scarlet Letter
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By Nathaniel Hawthorne Boston in the 1640s. Hester Prynne bears a child that cannot be her absent husband’s, refuses to name the father, and is sentenced to wear a scarlet A on her dress for the rest of her life.
| ISBN | 9780451531353 |
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| Language | English |
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By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Boston in the 1640s. Hester Prynne bears a child that cannot be her absent husband’s, refuses to name the father, and is sentenced to wear a scarlet A on her dress for the rest of her life.
She serves the sentence in public; the father serves his in private, and it destroys him rather more thoroughly. A novel about a community that needs someone to punish, and the founding work of American fiction.
First published 1850
