The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (The Penguin American Library)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0140390197 / Publisher: Penguin Classics, April 1983
Hester Prynne is ostracized by her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to reveal the identity of her child's father
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Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a sign of her adultery, and it has a strange and disturbing effect upon those around her - neighbours, husband, lover and child.
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