The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
Classics · ranked #94 in category
Sin, shame and hypocrisy in a Puritan colony, centred on a woman who refuses to be broken.
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Recommended
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