Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

The scarlet letter : a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustrated by Barry Moser ; with an introduction by Alexander Eliot. - 1st ed. - San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1986?], c1984. - xix, 181 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.

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Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
Illegitimate children--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
Puritans--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Clergy--Fiction.
Puritans--Fiction.--Massachusetts


Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
Massachusetts--History--Fiction.--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775


Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.

PS1868.A2 / E46 1986

813/.3 Fic