Presents the story of Hester Prynne, a young wife in seventeenth-century New England who is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet A as the symbol of the sin she has committed.
year: 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: prynne, hester (fictitious character), fiction, adultery, puritans, massachusetts, prynne, hester (fictional character), boston (mass.), history, fiction