The Scarlet Letter

An 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, prefaced by an autobiographical Custom-House sketch, that tells the story of Hester Prynne, her child Pearl, and the minister Arthur Dimmesdale in a Puritan New England community, following the consequences of the scarlet letter Hester is forced to wear.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›American novels to 1900›Society and literary novels

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