Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

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It tells the story of Hester Prynne , a young woman accused of adultery. As a punishment for this, she was forced to stand in the town scaffold, in front of of the whole toenspeople, with a scarlet letter "A" on her breast.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", aside from being a romance novel, is also a Historical-Fiction. A Historical novel is set in an earlier historical period that features a plot shaped by historical circumstances. The novel begins with an account of how the book was written and published. The anonymous narrator was a surveyor in Salem, Masachussetts. In the attic of the customhouse where he was working , he discovered a manuscript bundled in a patch of cloth with the letter "A" shape. It was the work of a former

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