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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

238 pages

In a Puritan town, a young woman is publicly shamed for having a child out of wedlock and refuses to name the father. As she builds a quiet life with her daughter, the man's secret guilt and her wronged husband's quest for revenge eat away at the community. A novel about sin and hypocrisy.

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Forbidden Love, Outcast Hero, Betrayal, Revenge

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