The scarlet letter / Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Presents the story of Hester Prynne, a young wife in seventeenth-century New England who is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet A as the symbol of the sin she has committed; and includes essays that examine the origins, creation, and structure of the novel.

The Scarlet Letter unfolds the tale of Hester Prynne, a yong woman branded as an adutleress in the harsh Puritan world of 17th-century New England.

In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.