Book · 1850 · Fiction

The Scarlet Letter

Name: The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Knopf (Penguin Random House) · 273 pages

★ 8.1 editorial score

Puritan Boston fastens a red letter to Hester Prynne's dress for adultery, and she refuses to name the child's father. Hawthorne turns public shame into something you feel in your body.

Genre

Romance

Medium

Novel

Subject

Adultery Love affairs Puritanism Shame

Setting

Boston

Time

1850Depicts Colonial AmericaDepicts 17th century

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Quote · 1949

“Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L. Mencken

Quote · 1866

“The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.”

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