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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

Original text in English.

A Puritan community punishes the offence in public and gives shame a visible form, worn on the body. The novel looks at what it costs the woman who displays it, and the man who hides it.

Novel · 25 parts · about 83 000 words · about 6 h of reading

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Contents

  1. THE CUSTOM-HOUSE1 h 04
  2. ITHE PRISON DOOR2 min
  3. IITHE MARKET-PLACE15 min
  4. IIITHE RECOGNITION14 min
  5. IVTHE INTERVIEW10 min
  6. VHESTER AT HER NEEDLE15 min
  7. VIPEARL15 min
  8. VIITHE GOVERNOR’S HALL11 min
  9. VIIITHE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER13 min
  10. IXTHE LEECH15 min
  11. XTHE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT14 min
  12. XITHE INTERIOR OF A HEART11 min
  13. XIITHE MINISTER’S VIGIL16 min
  14. XIIIANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER13 min
  15. XIVHESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN10 min
  16. XVHESTER AND PEARL10 min
  17. XVIA FOREST WALK10 min
  18. XVIITHE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER14 min
  19. XVIIIA FLOOD OF SUNSHINE9 min
  20. XIXTHE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE10 min
  21. XXTHE MINISTER IN A MAZE17 min
  22. XXITHE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY14 min
  23. XXIITHE PROCESSION16 min
  24. XXIIITHE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER13 min
  25. XXIVCONCLUSION9 min

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Nathaniel Hawthorne († 1864): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 33). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

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