The Scarlet Letter

Description for THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne; edited by Seymour Gorss, Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E Hudson Long:

This is a Norton Critical Edition and also the Third Edition

Set in the Puritanical society of 17th-century Boston, this novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, a married woman who has an affair and gives birth to a daughter. Hester refuses to name her lover, but when her estranged husband appears unexpectedly, he determines to discover the man's identity.