The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was published on March 16, 1850 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts. It is set in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts in the 1640s. It is about adultery, its punishment, and aftermath. It has been adapted to movies.
The Scarlet Letter Media
The Scarlet Letter by Hugues Merle (1861). Hester Prynne and Pearl in the foreground.
She beheld the minister advancing, illustrated by Hugh Thomson from a 1920 edition
Hester Prynne at the pillory, an engraved illustration from an 1878 edition
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