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A tale of betrayal, revenge, loyalty, and redemption, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a true classic.

Hester Prynne settles in a little town in Puritan-era Massachusetts while awaiting her husband’s arrival from England. Hester becomes pregnant, exposing her sin in the eyes of the townsfolk. Her penalty: wearing an embroidered A on her bosom for the remainder of her life.

When Hester’s husband arrives in the town anticipating a joyous reunion with his young wife, he instead begins a cankering quest to uncover the father of Hester’s child.

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1652…Found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is punished by being forced to publicly wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ as a mark of her shame.Despite being imprisoned, Hester refuses to name her lover and father of her daughter. Her position is made even more desperate when a man calling himself Roger Chillingworth arrives in her cell…A story of guilt and revenge, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel is rightly acclaimed as a literary classic, and its themes remain as challenging today as they were when the book was written.