Boston mid seventeenth century Hester Prynne dignified and silent is led through prison doors to her public shaming by her censorious Puritan neighbors Holding her illegitimate child to her breast and bearing a bright scarlet letter A embroidered on her bodice Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her child in this harsh and unforgiving community When her missing spouse reappears and takes up residence in town under an assumed identity the stage is set for an explosive confrontation between the truly moral and the merely religious
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (Salem, Massachusetts, 1804- Plymount, New Hampshire, 1864) es considerado uno de los pilares de la literatura norteamericana. Entre sus obras destacan Historias dos veces contadas (1837) y las novelas La letra escarlata (1850) y La casa de los siete anillos (1851), entre otras. Publicó también numerosas antologías de cuentos entre los que cabe destacar Wakefield.