Presents an abridged retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The Scarlet Letter," in which Hester Prynne, a wife and mother in seventeenth-century New England, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" after being judged guilty of adultery.
year: 1992
call number/section: 1000
subjects: prynne, hester (fictitious character), juvenile fiction, puritans, massachusetts, adultery, women, fiction