The scarlet letter
Subtitle: a romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustrated by Barry Moser ; with an introduction by Alexander Eliot.
Contributors: Moser, Barry, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1986
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Illegitimate children -- Fiction.; Women immigrants -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; Puritans -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; Revenge -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.