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Summary

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

Duration: about 9 hours (09:26:19)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1850. Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction
• Crime & Thriller