Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter [2016] paperback ZCURA In the eleven months between

In the eleven months between August 1971 and July 1972

Grandpa used to say it all the time: 'books have tremendous power'

She first came to court as a young girl of fourteen

the paranoia

harbouring an unregistered baby

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter [2016] paperback ZCURA In the eleven months betweenThe classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.