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
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