The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

272 pages first pub 1850 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark reflective slow-paced
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Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Massachusetts, this tale of an adulterous entanglement resulting in an illegitimate birth engendered the first true heroine of American fiction.

Introduction by Nina Baym

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