# The Scarlet Letter

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- Book: [The Scarlet Letter](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter) ([The Scarlet Letter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter.md))
- Authors: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4310-766-8
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2016-03-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 the first true heroine of American fiction.