The Scarlet Letter
A woman in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony is forced to wear the shame of her sin embroidered on her clothes.
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1850
Latest release
Jul 28, 2026
Pages
272
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Novel
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Table of Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- The Custom-House
- I. The Prison-Door
- II. The Marketplace
- III. The Recognition
- IV. The Interview
- V. Hester at Her Needle
- VI. Pearl
- VII. The Governor’s Hall
- VIII. The Elf-Child and the Minister
- IX. The Leech
- X. The Leech and His Patient
- XI. The Interior of a Heart
- XII. The Minister’s Vigil
- XIII. Another View of Hester
- XIV. Hester and the Physician
- XV. Hester and Pearl
- XVI. A Forest Walk
- XVII. The Pastor and His Parishioner
- XVIII. A Flood of Sunshine
- XIX. The Child at the Brook-Side
- XX. The Minister in a Maze
- XXI. The New England Holiday
- XXII. The Procession
- XXIII. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- XXIV. Conclusion