Scarlet Letter

Book : Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genres: Classics

Synopsis

This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of the New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a scarlet letter A to signify her adultery. She refuses to name her lover, and he too keeps his silence, but with a terrible cost.

The tale is prefaced with an account of the Salem Custom-house where Nathaniel Hawthorne was working when he began writing The Scarlet Letter. Summary by Cori Samuel

Release date: May 16, 2021

Publisher: Start Classics

Print pages: 228