"The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel in which a lonely woman, Hester Prynne, commits adultery with a preacher, Reverend Dimmesdale, while her husband is away. When leaders of the village learn of Hester's sin they punish her by forcing her to wear the letter "A" on her ... ...

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