The Scarlet Letter
Subtitle: A Romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; with an introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Illegitimate children -- Fiction.; Women immigrants -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; Puritans -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; Revenge -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Massachusetts, this tale of an adulterous entanglement resulting in an illegitimate birth engendered the first true heroine of American fiction.
Notes: The text is that of the Centenary ed. of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne published by Ohio State University Press.

Bibliography: p. xxix-xxx.