Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · Historical fiction
Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter as punishment for adultery in Puritan Boston, while the man she refuses to name watches from behind the pulpit and deteriorates in secret. A dark examination of guilt, public shame, and what communities do to people who break their rules.
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