![]() To our literature its first symbolic novel a year before theĪppearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley). Ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter. The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in The story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. Printed sold out in days, and the mass-production of books opened upĬonversation about books and authors to a wider-audience on a Printing of books generally done by hand. One of the first mass-produced novels in the United States, prior ![]() Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) is considered the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'masterwork.' A work of historical fiction set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Puritan settlement of 1642-1949 itells the story of Hester Prynne, who after having a child as a result of an extra-marital affair attempts to live a life of repentance and dignity although she is marked by having to wear a Scarlett A on her person. The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. ![]()
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