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The scarlet letter.

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Set in Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter tells the disturbing tale of Hester Prynne, a woman caught in the conflict between the Puritan ethics of her community and the higher law of her own love. In this tragic tale, we see the struggle between the laws of scripture and those of a different moral a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Dodd, Mead [1948]
Series:Great illustrated classics.
Subjects:
Women > Fiction.
Adultery > Fiction.
Puritans > Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) > Fiction.
New England > Fiction.
Massachusetts > Social life and customs > To 1775 > Fiction.
New England > Social life and customs > To 1775 > Fiction.
Adultery.
Puritans.
Women.
Massachusetts > Boston.
New England.
Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • The custom-house
  • The prison-door
  • The market-place
  • The recognition
  • The interview
  • Hester at her needle
  • Pearl
  • The governor's hall
  • The elf-child and the minister
  • The leech
  • The leech and his patient
  • The interior of a heart
  • The minister's vigil
  • Another view of Hester
  • Hester and the physician
  • Hester and Pearl
  • A forest walk
  • The pastor and his parishioner
  • A flood of sunshine
  • The child at the brook-side
  • The minister in a maze
  • The New England holiday
  • The procession
  • The revelation of the scarlet letter
  • Conclusion.