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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Example Sentences

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";   analysis of;   genesis of;   a study of punishment;   reality of;   parable of soul's life in sin;   moral despair of.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by Woodberry, George Edward

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

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, 29, 32, 92, 182, 203, 204.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders