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  Scarlet Letter, The

  noun

  a novel (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter

  (1850) A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne about Hester Prynne, a woman in seventeenth-century New England who is convicted of adultery. Forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her dress as a sign of her guilt, Hester refuses to reveal the identity of her lover. Eventually, a young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, publicly admits his part in the adultery and dies in Hester's arms.

Scarlet Letter, The

American  

noun

1. a novel (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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The Scarlet Letter Cultural  

1. (1850) A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne about Hester Prynne, a woman in seventeenth-century New England who is convicted of adultery. Forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her dress as a sign of her guilt, Hester refuses to reveal the identity of her lover. Eventually, a young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, publicly admits his part in the adultery and dies in Hester's arms.

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Scarlet Letter, The The Scarlet Letter

Scarlet Letter, The, 29, 32, 92, 182, 203, 204.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

What is the nature of the great informing, underlying idea that animates a truly great romance—The Bride of Lammermoor, Monte Cristo, Les Misérables, The Scarlet Letter, The Master of Ballantrae? 

From Robert Louis Stevenson by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

And not less in young manhood I was awed and absorbed in the great works of his maturity, The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance, The House of the Seven Gables, and the Marble Faun.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall

Scarlet Letter, The, xxv, 15, 20, 29, 36, 71, 72, 73, 146, 223.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Scarlet Letter, The, xxii, 13, 18, 27, 34, 69, 70, 71, 142, 217.

From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

He's interesting because in some ways some of the things that he wrote were a little bit misogynistic, but "The Scarlet Letter" is such a feminist book.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2023

The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne uses the special powers given to her by her cool letter-A suit to shatter society’s expectations of what women can do!

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Decades before Salem, Hester Prynne steps out of the Boston prison house with her “witch child”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2020

In numerous short stories and in novels like The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables, his characters struggled to escape the repressive influence of Puritanism and its legacy of hypocrisy, guilt, and self-recrimination.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

We are reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson