Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter "A" as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne's tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America's literary landmarks.
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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.