The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • FREE
  • 198 pages
  • Year: 1850
  • ~21h 54m
  • ★★★★★

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A woman in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony is forced to wear the shame of her sin embroidered on her clothes.

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The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850; it was one of the first books to be mass-produced in America, which helped ensure its immediate popularity and ubiquitous presence on contemporary shelves. Its first printing of 2,500 books sold out in ten days.

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