The Scarlet Letter (E-Bookarama Classics)
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First published in 1850, "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study. The novel is set in a 17th-century village in Puritan New England. The main character is Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns to New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. Chillingworth becomes obsessed with finding the identity of his wife’s former lover. When he learns that the father of Hester’s child is Arthur Dimmesdale, a saintly young minister who is the leader of those exhorting her to name the child’s father, Chillingworth proceeds to torment the guilt-stricken young man...


Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Page Flip: Enabled
Language: English
File size: 1799 KB
Publisher: E-BOOKARAMA
Print length: 226 pages
Publication date: October 6, 2022
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne