01448ojm 2200313z- 450 991014887440332120230913112557.00-00-721849-4(CKB)3710000000924007(BIP)014060412(EXLCZ)99371000000092400720231107c2005uuuu -u- -engScarlet LetterHarperCollins UK'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.'A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.Scarlet Letter, The Boston (mass.)ClergyMarried peopleAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction813/.3Hawthorne Nathaniel.192202McGovern ElizabethothAUDIO9910148874403321Scarlet letter17652UNINA