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• Scarlet Letter, The
  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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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, 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

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

His three great works, "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," and "The Blithedale Romance," are the finest specimens of imaginative writing which American genius has yet produced.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard