... uncovers a manuscript wrapped in the cloth, which he later reads. Jonathan Pue, a customs surveyor, wrote the composition a hundred years before, about an account of events that happened in the mid-seventeenth century. The narrator reads it and subsequently decides to write a fictional story out of Hester Prynne's experiences. Though he knows his story will not be exactly accurate in facts, he trusts ... ...

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