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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Romanticism
1850
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The story
Hester Prynne wears the embroidered letter while her daughter's father says nothing: puritan guilt observed from without and within.
About the author
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) wrote puritan New England as a moral trial that never ends.
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