02654cam a2200457 i 4500 449049075 TxAuBib 20201111120000.0 150818s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781512090567 1512090565 (OCoLC)918895505 TxAuBib rda Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The scarlet letter / by Nathaniel Hawthorne. [Place of publication not identified] : Millennium Publications, [2015] 147 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Scarlet Letter is a historical fiction book first published in 1850 and is Hawthorne's best-known work. Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The scarlet 'A' she was forced to wear has become part of American culture. Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to uncover the identity of Pearl's father - information Hester refuses to divulge to a single soul. But while Hester bears the stigma alone, one of the village's fine upstanding men is burning with guilt for his own part in her transgression. 20201111. jz. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Illegitimate children Fiction. Married women Fiction. Puritans Massachusetts Fiction. Puritans Fiction. Adultery Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Clergy Fiction. Women immigrants Fiction. Boston (Mass) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction. Historical fiction. Psychological fiction.