num_pages: 88
description: Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover and#150; the father of her child?
language: English
title: The Scarlet Letter
titlecomplete: The Scarlet Letter
characters: Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl Prynne, Hester Prynne, Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins, Roger Chillingworth
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, School, Novels, High School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 840975
places: Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, The United States of America
publisher: Oxford University Press