Presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel set during seventeenth century New England about a young woman, Hester Prynne, who is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as a symbol of her adultery; and contains over 800 SAT vocabulary words with definitions.
year: 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: triangles (interpersonal relations), fiction, illegitimate children, women immigrants, puritans, adultery, boston (mass.), history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction