num_pages: 240
description: Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves.
language: English
title: The Scarlet Letter
titlecomplete: The Scarlet Letter
characters: Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl Prynne, Roger Chillingworth
genres: Classics, Historical, Novels, High School, Read For School, School, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 840838
places: Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, The United States of America
publisher: Penguin Books