The Scarlet Letter

File:Title page for The Scarlet Letter.jpg

Title page, 1850

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

• Hugues Merle - The Scarlet Letter - Walters 37172.jpg

  The Scarlet Letter by Hugues Merle (1861). Hester Prynne and Pearl in the foreground.

• Hester and Arthur Dimmesdale, Hugh Thomson - Scarlet Letter illustration.jpg

  She beheld the minister advancing, illustrated by Hugh Thomson from a 1920 edition

• Hester Prynne.jpg

  Hester Prynne at the pillory, an engraved illustration from an 1878 edition

• The Scarlet Letter film ad, Lyric Theatre (1917).jpg

  Advertisement for *1917 adaptation of The Scarlet Letter