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Boston, mid-17th century: Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is
led through prison doors to her public shaming by her censorious
Puritan neighbors. Holding her illegitimate child to her breast and
bearing a bright scarlet letter â€A†embroidered on her bodice,
Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her
child in this harsh and unforgiving community. When her missing
spouse reappears and takes up residence in town under an assumed
identity, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation between
the truly moral and the merely religious.Â
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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R186
Discovery Miles 1 860
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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It is the mid-seventeenth century in Boston. Hester Prynne,
dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public
shaming by members of the Puritan town. Holding her illegitimate
child to her breast, and bearing a bright scarlet letter “Aâ€
embroidered on her bodice, Hester must now struggle to create a new
life for herself and her child within this censorious community.
When her missing spouse reappears, reveals himself to her, and
takes up residence in town under an assumed identity, Hester, her
daughter, her disguised husband, and her clandestine lover are
forced to abide in close quarters—leading quiet, anguished lives.
But the secrets eat away at their keepers, and only the most
resolute, the most spiritual—rather than the merely
religious—will survive the fall-out from the affair's
exposure. Â
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