The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edition: 1st Tor ed.
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780812504835; 9780881030457
Subjects: Mortal Sin; Social life and customs; Hester Prynne (Fictitious character); Illegitimacy; Fiction; Women tailors
Description: The Puritans thought Hester Prynne's crime was unforgiveable. She was convicted, imprisoned -- and then forced to wear, forever, a public reminder of her sin. The Scarlet Letter. The Letter was unending punishment: it set Hester apart from society, it tormented her days and haunted her soul.

But the Letter haunted others, as well. Its mystery turned Roger Chillingworth from a gentle healer into a man driven by revenge. Its meaning burned into Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's heart, as deadly as a cancer. And its power loomed over the life of Hester's daughter, the uncontrollable child Pearl.

Four people would be destroyed by a tangled web of guilt and secrets, unless one of them had the courage -- and love -- to reveal the truth of -- The Scarlet Letter.