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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Brief Summary Of "The Scarlet Letter":

Hester Prynne has shocked the Puritans of Boston by committing adultery.
Two years before the opening of the story, she was sent to America alone by
her husband to await his coming. As far as the world knows, Hester's husband,
Dr. Prynne (an elderly scientist), has disappeared. All of Boston is anxious
for Hester to tell the name of her secret lover, the father of her child named
Pearl. Hester leaves the prison and walks to the market place where she mounts
the steps of a scaffold. The magistrates have been ...

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