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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne · 26 parts · about 7 hours of reading
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Hester Prynne wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, and a whole town watches to see whether shame will break her. It does not. Hawthorne's dark, beautiful novel about sin, secrecy, and dignity is one of the first great psychological novels written in America.
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Contents
Preface to the Second Edition1 minThe Customhouse74 minChapter I: The Prison-Door2 minChapter II: The Marketplace17 minChapter III: The Recognition16 minChapter IV: The Interview12 minChapter V: Hester at Her Needle17 minChapter VI: Pearl17 minChapter VII: The Governor’s Hall12 minChapter VIII: The Elf-Child and the Minister15 minChapter IX: The Leech18 minChapter X: The Leech and His Patient16 minChapter XI: The Interior of a Heart12 minChapter XII: The Minister’s Vigil19 minChapter XIII: Another View of Hester15 minChapter XIV: Hester and the Physician11 minChapter XV: Hester and Pearl11 minChapter XVI: A Forest Walk11 minChapter XVII: The Pastor and His Parishioner16 minChapter XVIII: A Flood of Sunshine11 minChapter XIX: The Child at the Brook-Side12 minChapter XX: The Minister in a Maze19 minChapter XXI: The New England Holiday16 minChapter XXII: The Procession18 minChapter XXIII: The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter15 minChapter XXIV: Conclusion10 minSource: Standard Ebooks. Published 1850. Author died 1864. Public domain worldwide. Share this book: WhatsApp
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