Scarlet Letter, The

Hailed by Henry James as “the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country.” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Reaches to our nation’s historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.

If you would like to study this book further, you can use The Scarlet Letter Study Guide by Progeny Press, also available in CD-ROM format.