THE SCARLET LETTER. A ROMANCE

A dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty.Set in the harsh Puritan communit y of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Haw thorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit to emerge as the first true heroine of American fiction. Arthur Dimmesdale stands as a classic...[Read more]