The scarlet letter: a romance
โ Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Stephen Martin
๐ Library
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1995
๐ Broadview Press
๐ English
Set in the Puritanical society of 17th-century Boston, this novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, a married woman who has an affair and gives birth to a daughter. Hester refuses to name her lover, but when her estranged husband appears unexpectedly, he determines to discover the man's identity.