The scarlet letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; introduction by Kathryn Harrison ; notes by Gretchen Short.
Edition: 2000 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
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: In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.