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<em>THE SCARLET LETTER</em> is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, 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.<br/><br/> 20th-century writer D. H. Lawrence said that there could not be a more perfect work of the American imagination than The Scarlet Letter. Henry James once said of the novel, "It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne's best things-an indefinable purity and lightness of conception...One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art."<br/><br/> The book's immediate and lasting success are due to the way it addresses spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risqué subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New E

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Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher

Wisehouse Classics, an imprint of Wisehouse

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789176370834

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (1,949 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14