The scarlet letter / Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hester Prynne, a young wife in colonial New England, is sentenced to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing, as a public acknowledgement of her sin of adultery.

Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

The classic nineteenth-century work focuses on the consequences of adultery and unacknowledged guilt in Puritan New England.

Hester Prynne, a young woman in seventeenth century Massachusetts, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she committed. Includes an introduction, textual and explanatory notes, a bibliography, and a chronology.