TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel
TI  - The scarlet letter 
SN  - 9781847494214 (paperback) :
AV  - PS1868 .A1 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Alma Classics
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Illegitimate children
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Married women
KW  - Puritans
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Boston, MA
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
N2  - Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America’s literary landmarks
ER  -