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Book Review of The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


Set in an early New England colony, a married woman has an affair with a prominent figure, she gets impregnated. The whole town finds out about this, but she will not tell who the father of her baby is and as a punishment she is condemned to wear a letter A for adultery. This is a story about the woman, her lover and the struggles that she and her lover go through