TY - BOOK AU - Hawthorne,Nathaniel TI - The scarlet letter SN - 9781847494214 (paperback) : PY - 2015///] CY - Richmond PB - Alma Classics KW - Boston (Mass.) KW - History KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Fiction KW - Historical fiction N1 - Formerly CIP N2 - 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 ER -