Scarlet Letter (version 2)
Author: first_name: Nathaniel
last_name: Hawthorne
Language: English
Year: 1850

This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea.  The Puritan Elders of the New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a scarlet letter A to signify her adultery.  She refuses to name her lover, and he too keeps his silence, but with a terrible cost. <br><br>The tale is prefaced with an account of the Salem Custom-house where Nathaniel Hawthorne was working when he began writing The Scarlet Letter. Su