In the canon
The Scarlet Letter
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1850
- Pages
- Pages 230
In Puritan Boston a woman is made to wear a scarlet letter for bearing a child out of wedlock, and shields the father's name while he, a revered minister, rots behind his hidden guilt.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered.
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