Scarlet Letter: A Romance

Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th-century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized, but emerges as a true heroine of American fiction.

By Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Introduction by Baym, Nina
Notes by Connolly, Thomas