The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and...
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Author: Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
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Author: Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
Presents four short stories by the 19th century New England writer.
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Author: Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
The House of Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family--whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery. When country...
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Author: Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover. When she gives birth to a child, her shame is made public, and in the unforgiving moral atmosphere of...
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Author: Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.
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Author: Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband - long thought to be lost...